Voters accuse the Prime Minister of ‘forgetting about the North’

VOTERS IN Grimsby have claimed the Government has “forgotten the north” in its approach to Brexit.

Speaking during a visit to the town by the Prime Minister both leave and remain voters voiced concerns over her approach to the Brexit process with just 20 days to go before Britain’s scheduled departure date.

Speaking during her visit Theresa May acknowledged “no one knows” what will happen if her plan is defeated in Tuesday’s crunch vote.

Richard Osbourne, 29, who voted remain in 2016, said: “How is this going to improve the industrial north?

“Quite frankly we are treated like one of the last frontiers, probably how the colonies were treated 200 years ago. We seem to be largely forgotten about.

“The fishing industry declined in this town, which was obviously the backbone of our economy 30 years ago, and to come here with cheap political posturing, I don’t think is going to make a difference.

“You’re going to come here and what, assure us everything is going to get better whilst you’re continually taking money out of our fairly well depleted pockets, and try and tell us that everything is going to get better and just hang in there?”

David Lister, 51, said: “You can’t have a no-deal, get the deal put in place, get it sorted out.

“You’ve had three years, people are fed up with it, they’re fed up with this austerity and it’s time the Government sorted issues out.”

Another voter speaking after the visit to the town added: “I think just get on with it, we voted out, let’s go.”