Meddling Macron

FRIENDSHIPS, marriage and Brexit trade deals can make you consider whether the relationship is worthwhile.

That is where we are with EU bureaucrats, but not with all 27 of its members.

Let’s give France a history and geography lesson, and take civil servants and politicians out of the equation.

We can do this by cancelling the Northern Ireland Protocol and moving the border back to ports of entry from the EU into the UK, such as Dover and the Channel Tunnel. This would make it clear once and for all that Northern Ireland is part of the UK.

Under World Trade Organization rules, goods could be moved electronically between ourselves and the EU using existing protocols.

This would avoid queues of trucks at Channel ports.

Leave President Macron to get on with trying to run the EU for his domestic ends.

We should cancel all the Brexit agreements and renegotiate fishing to protect our domestic industry and stocks; refuse to license foreign vessels that take part in actions against our national interest, such as blockades; and ban factory fishing vessels.

With goodwill and common sense between Dublin and London, a sensible and workable arrangement over border controls could be negotiated — provided that the EU is not involved this time.

MICK TEDDER, Dover, Kent.