Stand firm for proper Brexit negotiations

WHEN people feel strongly about some issue they often forget the principles they would normally adhere to.

You can respect people in the Remain camp but they do need to be reminded that it is disingenuous now to talk about a second vote being democratic.

If they had accepted the result of a free and open referendum, as they should have, and ended the fight then the EU would not have been encouraged to be so unco-operative.

Michel Barnier has been acting like Molotov, the “Abominable No-man” in the worst days of the Cold War, and the reason was clearly that he did so because he was encouraged to think this country was weak and divided – like another person of a regrettable past.

We now face up to it. We have been denied sensible negotiation and may indeed have to leave the EU without an agreement. That will cause us economic damage in the short term and it will damage our neighbours in Europe even more, but the fault is primarily with our own Remainers.

The challenge now is to stand firm. If we do that, there is still time for real negotiation. If we have to leave without it, Continental manufacturers and traders will be making their own view felt by the EU establishment and we will be finding different markets and different suppliers, free from all the doctrinaire excesses of EU legislation. David Sage Penclawdd, Swansea