Sunday Times News on 11th June 2017

Brexit brick wall awaits ‘clueless’ May.  

The PM seems unaware that Germany and France will not yield an inch. 

Wrote Bojan Pancevski in Brussels.

How wrong is Bojan Pancevski writing in the Sunday Times from Brussels!  Mrs. May is not only a pragmatic Briton, but is made of such sterner stuff than any European could ever visualise.  From the moment she entertained Jean Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier to her British hospitality at Chequers, she had her opponents well and truly sussed; their determination to punish Britain for Brexit and their nastiness towards our freedom to choose, Remain or Leave the EU, a liberty that is denied to 27 members of the EU.  Hence the outrage leaked to the Press the following day by aides to President Juncker of the European Commission,. 

Of course the PM is fully aware of the hard line being taken by Angela Merkel and her bureaucrats, especially when Juncker and Tusk’s uncompromising demands for Britain’s severance pay went from £50 billion to £100 billion and rising with the hope of seeing Mrs.May flinch, but she is canny enough to pre-empt the greed of this political Union by including in her 2017 Conservative Manifesto that if need be, she would withdraw from the Single Market with no deal (which is better than a bad deal!).

Ironically, it’s the British Media in general and the European reporters in particular, who are incapable of reading Theresa May’s urgent resolve to negotiate Britain’s divorce, knowing what she already knows about the true character and bias of the European Union. Like the British benefits system in the last few decades, thousands on job-seekers allowance, who can never find a suitable job with enough leisure time, to warrant giving up their free hand-outs, so the EU too cannot give up their extravagance and luxury that British taxpayers had kept them accustomed to in the last few decades.  

It’s not “clueless’ May who needs to be informed of the complexities and realities of the EU position, these have been known to all Parties’ MEPs who have ever worked in Brussels, such as UKIP’s Nigel Farage and their 24 MEPs, whose research and tomes of evidence had brought about the referendum last year.  It is more incumbent of our media to be better informed so as not to make clueless and crass headlines to slander MPs, in this case the PM of the largest Party with the most votes at the last General Election.

The Sunday Times on 18th June, 2017, David Smith (Economic Outlook) wrote :
"Austerity has further to run..." as he extolled Philip Hmmond's good fortune in continuing as chancellor.  But 51.9% of us who voted to leave the EU are dreading his softer Brexit approach as it will drag out the negotiations, meaning more austerity.

The EU took nine years to negotiate a trade agreement with Canada; how long will it take to unravel 
Britain's trade with just a few EU nations?  Will our health service hold out that long?  Will nurses, school-leavers or young graduate workers survive two further years of 1% pay rises against 2.9% inflation?  How would the next generation of pensioners cope once their parents' savings invested in family homes get absorbed into hospital payments?

We urgently need to get out of the EU to allow those who wish to trade outside it to commence, and  to stop any more EU payments so we can fund our education, health and welfare services.

Jean Romsey