Campaigning to rejoin EU will begin next year when impact of Brexit is felt - Yorkshire Post Letters

GORDON Lawrence (The Yorkshire Post, November 6) demonstrates his lack of understanding of the EU. It does not, cannot and never has exercised “hegemony” over any of its members, all of whom joined, or in our case left, out of their sovereign choice.

EU laws are the ones we in the UK helped to draft. They are adopted democratically in the European Parliament and in the EU Council. It’s true there have been occasions (so few I venture to suggest Mr Lawrence cannot give us one example) that we have been outvoted, but this is how democracy works, isn’t it?

And describing the EU as an “undemocratic bureaucracy” while living in a UK run, as admitted by a Cabinet Minister recently, by the unelected “career psychopath” Dominic Cummings, in the way of a personal fiefdom, takes a bit of chutzpah.

We have left the EU. But in a democracy, the people are free to campaign to rejoin and no doubt that will begin in earnest next year when the full impact of Brexit is felt. If a majority want to rejoin, who will stop them?

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