Little wriggle room for MP

A letter last week asks for an extension (again) to the interminable refusal to follow the democratic will of the British people.

The writer claims that a large section of the populace now supports a delay but, surely, anyone watching the almost invisible EU input to the virus catastrophe will be less than impressed.

The shutters clanged shut from the Balkans to the Bay of Biscay as every government turned to their national priorities.

To be fair this is difficult to criticise – can you imagine Mrs Merkel going to, say, Munich and saying ‘I know you have coronavirus here but Naples really needs ventilators so you will have to go without’?

We are assured that medicine etc. will be delayed if we do as we voted for – leave.

Two of the biggest and most advanced chemical companies in the world (Astra and Glaxo) are based in this country.

I hardly see European countries refusing their products at the behest of some remote bureaucrat miles away in Brussels when, say, a relative has cancer where these are worldleaders. So reciprocity will be the outcome, I hope!

Secondly as we have recently seen when push comes to shove all governments will turn to their own electorate.

Lastly, a look at an example of the fallacy that EU companies won’t sell to us.

Novo Nordisk, which supplies much of our insulin, sells to Iran in a big way. Do Remainers really think it would rather sell to a pariah state, thousands of miles