It’s time to return to the heart of Europe

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Catriona Lawrie

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THE voting decision to leave the EU may well have been way back in June 2016. That first failure to leave within two years or make even a page worth of progress towards actually leaving was marked by the second Conservative PM to walk out of No 10 never to return.

Little did we know we would see two more insignificant failures – two more Prime Ministers walk out of No 10 never to return.

We have witnessed many of the Leave campaigners admit to its failure and UKIP has disappeared from the face of Britain.

Today we can look back at our once feudal fragmented island of war lords who slowly gathered us into the United Kingdom most of us know and most quite like, even if some to the West and North would prefer a state of interdependence.

In 2020, 1,500 years after King Arthur, we finally scrambled out to leave the interdependence of a United Europe in the name of our own independence, to find that was a myth – we are still as dependent on our trade and our worldwide goodwill with other nations as we ever were.

The right to choose who come here and who does not depends on what we need and don’t need... and that changes as the wind.

And we rarely get just what we would like – we search India and the Philippines for people to come and care for our elderly, and we go to Europe’s poorest nations for seasonal workers on our farms to take on the lowest of menial tasks.

The market decides, not the Conservative government, who comes here.

We sorely miss the 90,00 Europeans who left us.

So today – Saturday, March 23 – ‘Devon for Europe’ will reassemble in Exeter city centre to be part of a UK and EU-wide ‘Return to Europe’ presence across the UK.

It’s time for us to start retracing our steps back to good sense and unity – and a wish to see our country at the heart of the union of European states, together and united in our differences. Come and say hello!

Don Frampton Devon