Yes, we have regained our sovereignty

WE were asked on the letters page if we thought we had really regained our ‘sovereignty?’

What I think is that the question was probably prompted by the appalling letter next to panel, in which the obviously totally biased correspondent tries to link our leaving of the EU to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent delays in treatment to cancer patients, the interruption of children’s schooling and the care of the elderly.

The correspondent chooses to brush over the fact that the Covid19 pandemic is just that – a global pandemic, and that millions have died as a result, that the pandemic doesn’t observe borders of any kind, and chooses to ignore the images of the dying in Italian and Spanish hospital corridors, that this ‘poor feeble sovereign country’ of ours was the first to roll out a vaccine to try and counter the pandemic.

Is there no level to which the very few Remainers will not sink?

I don’t personally trust Boris Johnson any further than I can throw him... however, I trusted Theresa

May and Jeremy Corbyn even less.

No doubt, as the days go by, those who we trust to go through the treaty with a fine toothcomb will find that, in order to get the deal done, Boris Johson has not just betrayed the fishermen of this country but others as well.

What we do have now, which we haven’t since Ted Heath took this country into what was the EEC, is our sovereignty – a thing to be cherished by all and not used by bitter Remainers whose cause was long ago lost.

How many of those who said they would leave this country as a result of the referendum actually have?

In the words of Samuel Johnson:

“He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.”

Stuart Eels Chippenham