YP Letters: Get real on Brexit '“ back Theresa May's plan or face no deal at all

I’VE been surprised at the froth I’ve heard recently from some Brexiteers, many of whom I used to respect, but who are now showing their true colours as idealists who won’t support a practical Brexit deal, as set out 
in the Government’s recent White Paper.

As a keen, practical, Brexiteer, I welcome the support that Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom have given for the White Paper.

We‘ve done the easy bit – we’ve had the binary choice (i.e. the referendum). Now comes the difficult bit, actually implementing the complexities of Brexit. I consider myself to be a Brexit realist.

I therefore cautiously welcome Theresa May’s White Paper on the future relationship with the EU. I have read the whole document and it deals with the main things that bothered me (and, I suspect, many people) about the UK’s membership of the EU.

Brexit was all about having the right to control your own destiny as a sovereign, independent nation. Under the White Paper, we’ll be regaining the powers to do precisely that.

The extent to which those repatriated powers are exercised will be a choice of Government. We’ll be able to co-operate as much or as little as we like with the EU.

The White Paper is a very clever document, which is almost a blueprint for how the EU ought to work, i.e. to allow countries to co-operate and trade, with no loss of sovereignty. We will be able to develop trade with the rest of the world and, as that trade grows in size, we can get tougher with the EU on any new rules they try to introduce.

Wouldn’t it be a shame if an unholy alliance of Brexit idealists and Remoaners scuppered this White Paper and left us with the uncertainties of a no-deal Brexit?

From: Coun Pual Andrews, (Ind), Malton Ward, Ryedale District Council.

I WONDER if any of your Brexiteer correspondents have paused to reflect that one of the reasons the EU was set up was to establish a market which would enable European firms to grow and compete with those in huge countries like the US.

Is it possible, I wonder, if President Trump sees that it could be in the interest of the US to destroy this market in order to advance his “America First” crusade?

Perhaps there is a hidden motive for his interference with British politics.

With friends like Trump, who needs enemies?