Realignment with the EU doesn’t answer this fundamental question - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Thomas W Jefferson, Batty Lane, Howden, Goole.
Andrew Vine says that Brexit “threw the country into a ferment of bitter argument and uncertainty that has not abated a decade on” (The Yorkshire Post, June 23). That’s because Remainers didn’t give ‘losers’ consent’ which is the mutual respect that is required to make democracy work. Without it we become ungovernable.
Remainers were shattered to have lost the referendum and made up their minds that no good could possibly come from it. Hence they ignore the real-world evidence that doesn’t suit them.
Our international trade continues at competitive levels, thus taking the ground from beneath their argument that growth would fall due to declining trade. Our peers in the Eurozone are performing worse than us, but Rejoiners think we would be better off sticking with them.
Like Andrew Vine, Will Kemp (on the same page) accepts that the rejoin question is off limits for the foreseeable future, so reverts to the mantra that we must realign with the EU.
A robust consideration of realignment would have to include mention of the Draghi report’s conclusion that the EU’s restrictive rules are the cause of its low growth, so how would rejoining the single market help us?
A decade on from the Brexit vote, if this debate must continue let it be characterised by sensible, level-headed, logical argument rather than the emotive flim-flam so often advanced.