Let’s holiday in UK to support our tourism

I ENTIRELY agree with the points made by Mike Butterfield and Michael Carter. It seems to me that four and a half years have been wasted in so-called negotiations to arrive at a very unsatisfactory end (and at what cost of those negotiations).

We should have left immediately and traded under WTO terms which would have saved us some £39 billion straight away. As it is, we have let down our fishermen and our fellow countrymen in Northern Ireland to start with.

Then our politicians feed us with the carrot that our courts will regain their sovereignty, which on the face of it is wonderful until one looks at how our own system works and the sentences they hand down. We become more lawless by the day and the courts become softer. If prisons are overcrowded then perhaps it would be better to build a couple more rather than spending (read wasting) billions on a grandiose HS2 project.

Changing the subject, I would like to comment on global warming. I am not a firm believer, since nowadays everyone including scientists are always looking for the impressive headline. However, many people point the finger at consumerism, which is poisoning the atmosphere and using up valuable natural assets at an ever increasing rate. This is probably very true but surely the root cause is overpopulation. Until we solve that problem nothing is likely to change.

Finally our ‘friends’ in Europe appear to be wishing to punish us and our businesses in any way possible. Whilst having enjoyed many holidays in Europe in the past I suggest that we try as much as possible to holiday in the UK in 2021 to help out many sectors of our economy and show European governments what it is like to lose a substantial amount of expected trade.

Brian George Somerset