Even Remoaners are seeing hope in Brexit

GEORGE Osborne and his fellow Remoaners are too gloomy about Brexit, while their critique of everything the UK does is over the top.

Don’t take the Mail’s word for it. This is the verdict of the ex- chancellor’s former chief of staff at the Treasury – a Remain campaigner himself, who stood loyally by the architect of Project Fear for five years.

Accusing his old boss of falling for the ‘fashionable view’ that ministers have no strategy, Rupert Harrison rightly points out that the Government’s negotiating position is becoming ‘quite clear’.

If there’s uncertainty, he says, it’s mainly over how far MPs and ‘ angry Lords’ are prepared to go to sabotage Brexit.

Echoing Mr Harrison, Australia’s High Commissioner yesterday branded the pessimists as needlessly gloomy, saying we should be cautiously optimistic over an EU free trade deal, which would be in the interests of every country concerned.

With robust common sense, Alexander Downer added that Australia has proved it possible to do deals without accepting free movement of people, while Brexit should open the door to markets worldwide.

Is it too much to hope the message will get through to the gloom-mongers that they should drop their defeatist (and frankly unpatriotic) talk of paying massive Brexit bills and surrendering to all EU demands?

Indeed, isn’t their egregious pessimism the biggest obstacle to seizing the bright future that beckons?