Brexit: Sadness and fury
I EXPERIENCED a mixture of sadness and anger when I read the Brexit letters in the paper.
The country is going through a political upheaval like no other since WW2 and to reduce the Brexit referendum debate to “We won, you lost” simply does not make sense.
We joined the European Union in 1973 and to think that we can cut ourselves off from trade and suddenly become Great Britain again is simply not tenable in our interconnected world.
Our links to Europe have benefitted the country immeasurably but come the referendum, who was banging the drum for Remain? If Boris Johnson had pulled the ‘other’ speech from his pocket all those years back he would say that being in the EU was wholly in our interest and be fighting for Remain.
In fact he saw the opportunity to achieve his lifetime ambition of becoming Prime Minister by taking a populist approach, as President Trump has done.
David Cameron is culpable in inflicting the deep Tory split onto the country by calling a referendum he thought he was bound to win.
We have a Prime Minister elected by a few ageing Tory voters, sacking ministers and MPs who dare to disagree and suspending Parliament in what is now deemed to be an illegal move.
Just who is taking back control? Boris, the jolly clown is in fact very dangerous.
HUGH MELVIN, Saltburn
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READING Ann Higgins letters (The Gazette 09.09.19) she has described this political fiasco in a nutshell. Labour, Lib Dems, all the remainers are treating 17.4 million people that voted to leave the EU three years ago, as ignorant peasants that did not know what they were voting for. How democratic is that!
All this fiasco among politicians is not to stop a no-deal but to stop Brexit full stop.
Winston Churchill had a similar problem with politicians when they wanted Britain to surrender to Hitler.
And as for Jeremy Corbyn he targets the young voters because they have no idea abut politcis.
As far as I am concerned all Jeremy Corbyn is good for is causing as much chaos in this country as possible.
All this uncertainty for the last three years, does not help this country.
Britain must look like a joke to the rest of the world, not to be taken seriously all because of this Parliament.
S SUCKLING, Middlesbrough