No-deal exit from the EU is hardly an economic disaster for UK

IMUST respond to the comments expressed by Julian Evans on the Letters and Opinions page late last month.

First of all, a no-deal exit from the EU can hardly be described as an economic disaster, when for the last 10 years, UK exports to non-EU countries have increased in the region of 14%, whereas UK exports to the EU fell by about 1.3%.

This surely shows the potential for the UK to prosper and grow, once we the UK is free from the shackles of the EU.

It is the EU that frequently breaks International Law, not the UK. The EU pays very little regard to its own laws, let alone international obligations. In 2010 the EU violated the Lisbon Treaty, by violating all the rules over the Greek and Irish bailout.

Christine Lagarde, the then French Economy Minister, admitted the EU violated all the rules because they wanted to close ranks and really rescue the eurozone.

The Treaty of Lisbon was very clear, “No bailout”.

For months, the EU has been in material breach of its obligations under the Withdrawal Treaty.

The UK as a state retains its sovereign right to withdraw from the EU, which is an international organization. When the UK exercised its right to leave, it participated in the withdrawal agreement (WA) process on an essential condition which is agreement on a future permanent arrangement with the EU that enshrines UK sovereignty and secures an FTA. By denying the UK an FTA, the EU acted in material breach of the WA

The EU has attempted to impose wholly unreasonable restrictions on the UK which no other country would ever accept. Again, the EU has breached its legal obligation to act in good faith. The WA also breaks the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, also jeopardising the peace on the island of Ireland.

The WA is in breach of the ECHR principle of the right to vote. The WA is in breach of the UN Charters’ principle of “self-determination” – its’ most important tenet. The WA Treaty has therefore been entered into by the UK on a false premise from the EU.

John Nicholls Kingswood