Stop worrying about Brexit – there’s no way it will happen!

ANYONE worrying about Brexit can relax and breath a sigh of relief. It is becoming obvious that Theresa May will shortly announce to the House of Commons that, despite a referendum and negotiations which were going very well, Britain will not leave the EU at this time of great pressure and belligerence from the evil, aggressive Russian monster.

Colleagues in the EU will tut tut a little, sympathise a lot and praise her courage in putting peace in Europe – and possibly the world – ahead of the undoubted gains Britain standing alone could have reaped on the world stage.

Boris will jog a few miles and declare that removal of the British retaliation threat could be the difference between speaking German or Russian.

Everybody will be seriously upset by the apparent denial of a democratic vote, but all will agree that Britain is doing the right thing in view of the dastardly threat from the East.

In response to the generous solidarity shown by Britain, the EU will guarantee the sovereignty of the British mile and set up several enquiries to ascertain whether all of Europe should embrace Imperial measurement.

And, perhaps, move to 240 cents in the euro, as consideration of leaving the EU is shelved in the common good and interests of the world. PADRAIC NEARY, Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo.

Scare tactics?

IN the run-up to the referendum on the Eighth Amendment, we see and hear constant references from the anti-choice side to a figure of one in five pregnancies in England/Wales ending in abortion.

Am I alone in seeing shadows of the Brexit campaign in this strategy, with its use of random statistics for scaremongering? In this case it cynically plays on our old animosity with England. We don’t want to be them.

And of course we’re not them. We’re us. Our culture is different.

Thus, the only appropriate response to these figures is: So what? The proposed legislation after a Yes vote will be very different from the law in the UK and will be much more restrictive.

If comparisons are to be made, it would be more accurate to look at Portugal, The Netherlands or Switzerland, where liberalised abortion legislation, very similar to that proposed here, combined with better access to contraception and sex education, has led to falling abortion rates.

CAROL HUNTER, Grandparents for Repeal.