Still hoisting their same old placard

I can assure Phil Jones that I did notice recent protests on the Irish land border (Viewpoint, November 25).

In fact I have noticed protests by the same anti-Brexit group for over five years.

What I have never noticed is any public condemnation of their ridiculous antics by the UK government, but then that is just par for the course.

As I wrote two years ago: “Mr Jones may recall spoof images of British customs officers stopping traffic at the border which were produced by a campaign group and given wide circulation in the media, especially in outlets opposed to Brexit, when the UK government had no intention of setting up any border posts and doing so would now be unlawful under Section 10 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.”

(Viewpoint, October 31 2019, “Simple solution to the Irish border ‘problem’”)

But that group are still at it now, still with the same ‘British Customs’ placard.

And the Irish government is also still at it, four years after the Irish politician Phil Hogan, then an EU Commissioner, publicly threatened that Ireland would ‘continue to play tough to the end’ over its threat to veto trade talks, building an insurmountable mountain from a molehill on the border.

If Mr Jones puts ‘Irish warn Theresa May: change course or risk Brexit chaos’ into Google he can see his famous campaigners in action.

At that point by far the best course for Theresa May would have been to announce that the UK no longer sought any special trade treaty with the EU but intended to default to the existing WTO treaties; instead

she reduced the UK to a supplicant by continuing to beg for a ‘deep and special relationship’.

Dr D R COOPER Belmont Park Avenue

Maidenhead