Remaining in EU could be the best Brexit deal

SOME Brexiteers, apart from May’s deal, are prepared to either leave with no deal or cancel Brexit. The latter will lead to the best of “best deals”, which is to remain. This means that the £500m a week Brexit costs would become a “remain” bonus, and help pay for the NHS which is in severe straits.

So far, this government has not made any meaningful financing for the NHS even with the Better Deal claims – £20bn is a budgeting item, that is efficiency savings. No new money, just cuts in finance and staffing.

We are told in the media that businesses are queueing up to back May’s Brexit deal because it provides stability for new investment, however ignoring the short-termism until 2021.

Large employers are unable to take short-termism seriously and realise that the UK’s EU membership means they/we have never had it so good.

Mark Carney (of the Bank of England) clearly stated the country would be Brexit poor with the 25% fall in the value of the pound hitting those reliant on benefits and the less well off the hardest. It affects business too, as the poor do not spend.

The World Trade Organisation option is not a panacea.

Our Russian friends have already rejected our new tariff quotas and indeed Donald Trump, our American friend, is doing his best to bring the WTO into ever increasing legal wrangling. That would leave the UK between a rock and a very perilous situation.

Now Project Fear is being used as a frightener, that a “no deal” will mean the end – not true of course. Article 50 can be revoked at any time now up to the government’s end date in March 2019 as repeatedly stated by the EU.

Will Woodward, Ridgeway Avenue,

Littleover