Britons will campaign to get Brexit undone – Yorkshire Post Letters

THIS Wednesday (September 23) marks 100 days until our European Union transition arrangements end.

No-one knew when Theresa May told us that “Brexit means Brexit” that, four years later – and seven months after leaving the EU – we would still not, in fact, know what Brexit means. Deal or not, on January 1 we will.

Even so, this will not be the end of the matter – far from it. Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey says Brexit might not be revisited for years and Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer reckons voters are “almost numb” to it.

Boris Johnson might pray they are right. But they are wrong. The backlash against the Government’s plan to break international law is evidence of that.

Brexit did result in probably Europe’s greatest pro-EU campaign emerging in Britain. Each week, hundreds join 
the national European Movement UK – of which Leeds for Europe is one of its largest branches.

The coronavirus has meant that we have not seen in 2020 any of the massive pro-EU demos that we saw in 2019.

But, be in no doubt – we are angry about our country’s good name and its economy being trashed by this reckless government, and you will see us back on the streets as soon as circumstances allow.

Make no mistake, Mr Johnson. The “rejoin EU” campaign has started. It is the only true “oven-ready” deal.

Get Brexit undone.

From: JG Riseley, Harcourt Drive, Harrogate.

THE threat posed by the Brexit negotiations to the Union of Northern Ireland with Great Britain may be viewed with greater equanimity by some of us than others.

An independent united Ireland can be seen as a natural outcome which has been delayed for over a century by the antics of the IRA, going back to a time when peaceful transition was within reach. There is reason to feel that reconciliation is again plausible, the Irish people having in recent decades liberated themselves from the Catholic Church.

The EU needs, however, to be aware that if it forces such an outcome then its cohesion fund will be taking on responsibility for maintaining the north of Ireland at a level of prosperity sufficient to stupefy any resulting dissent. In the longer term such developments might conceivably take us towards a Federation of the British Isles.

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