‘The nearer the deadline, the more silly the opinions’

I RESPOND to Mr or Mrs Karic’s letter in your October 17 edition.

Without making a case for or against the EU, it seems to me that the nearer the deadline for Brexit the more chaotic, silly and ill-informed statements and ‘strategies’ become.

This not only applies to the Karic letter but also to our government and opposition parties, none of whom are capable of uttering a coherent way forward and are deeply divided.

The most contentious point in the Karic comment is the seeming happiness to plunge this country into poverty post Brexit, whether temporarily or for longer is beside the point.

This all for the sake of sticking to our guns and showing the EU the twofinger salute with a stiff upper lip.

I cannot believe that any Brexit supporter voted on the clear understanding that the UK will be palpably worse off after leaving the EU.

To the contrary, I am sure most Brexit supporters would be aghast to wake up after an acrimonious Brexit and find this nation in free fall.

They certainly did not want that. I cannot believe that we have citizens acting like the lemmings, jointly jumping into the unknown for better or worse.

I am happy to respect a well founded and intelligently articulated view in favour of Brexit, but not the kind of short sighted tosh decanted by Mr/mrs Karic.

Franz Opitz Leek