Hard Brexit cliff edge doesn’t exist
We are now witnessing the ‘political elite’, their friends in the broadcast and print media desperately attempting to remove the ‘no deal’ option from the government during the Brexit negotiations.
Of course what they want is for the UK to be given a ‘bad deal’ which they can then overturn in a second referendum.
It is noticeable how they attacked Boris Johnson when he gave positive views about Brexit, he should be sacked they cried. Not so Hammond when he is as gloomy as an undertaker on a wet weekday funeral.
It is interesting the BBC and the others failed to highlight the London School of Economics and Oxford University survey which comprehensively shows 68 per cent of the large 3,293 sample backed so-called ‘hard Brexit’.
They are happy to quote any poll that supports ‘soft Brexit’, also known as remaining in the EU. We should not be surprised, an analysis of tweets sent out by key news broadcasters shows they are very negative about Brexit. It shows in the way they interview remain supporters like Clark and Clegg.
They give their anti democratic views full weight. What of the ‘no deal’ scenario?
Any negotiator needs the power to walk away, without it you are at the mercy of the other side. That is the position Labour now want to foist on the UK.
‘No deal’ means World Trade Organisation rules, This is not something we should fear since it is how we currently trade with the rest of the world.
As an example we have a trade surplus with the USA but a huge deficit with the EU. When we are free from the EU we could have no tariffs with third world nations who could supply food, for example. Currently, the EU protection racket protects French farmers and destroys any chance of poor nations standing on their own two feet. Remember project fear, they were remain lies, they are now attempting to do the same, a cliff edge does not exists.
They have learnt nothing. They even had Hillary Clinton telling us what to do. We didn’t listen to Obama and we sure will not be listening to a Clinton.
I hope we call the EU’s bluff and walk away now. The UK owes them nothing and we do not need to pay them to trade since they sell us more than we buy from them. Only then can we be the sovereign, independent nation we all want. Now is the time to write to your MP and let them know how angry you will be if they dare to betray the democratic vote of June 23, 2016.
John Stretton, Albrighton
