Need to get tough regarding Brexit

FIRST we are told “No Deal is better than a Bad Deal”, but now we are told “This (Bad) Deal is better than a No Deal”.

We know that turkeys aren’t supposed to vote for Christmas, but it didn’t stop the UK negotiators voting for the ‘Turkey Trap.’

That is to say that like Turkey (the country), the UK will be stuck in the Customs Union, without any say or being able to leave, until the EU decides otherwise.

A strategic move designed to prevent the UK striking new trade deals, and stifling our economy.

Macron was rubbing his hands together with glee, stating that France won’t let the UK leave until we agree future fishing quotas.

Indeed, while we are in the transition period, we will have no say in setting the quotas in our newly-returned territorial waters. Not only has the fishing industry been sold down the river, but the EU has the UK trapped forever as a vassal state.

Speaking from experience, no sane business would ever sign a legally-binding contract without having a proper termination clause.

Moreover, no sane business would hand over £39billion without knowing what we are getting in return.

In my opinion, the only way I can see of getting out of this mess, is to replace Theresa May

with someone whom the EU would believe, would have the guts to see through a No Deal, and then to renegotiate the worst bits of the Withdrawal Agreement.

This would include the establishment of a joint EU, Eire and UK working group, to replace the backstop and come up with a technological solution to the Irish Border within an agreed fixed time - work that had been going on in Eire prior to Brexit. Time is short, but taking the EU right up to the wire is the ONLY way they will listen to reason.

PETER LOVERING, Morpeth