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The EU referendum resulted in the UK leaving the EU

Since the referendum resulted in the country leaving the EU, five candidates came forward to vie for Britain’s leadership.  Theresa May had the clear advantage of time to prepare for leadership of the country on David Cameron stepping down, but I am not convinced she is the best person to negotiate terms with the EU.

However, Liam Fox was the first to be eliminated at the first round of Tory selection on 5th July, which triggered the withdrawal of Stephen Crabb from the leadership contest.

On Thursday 7^thJuly Michael Gove with the lowest Conservative votes was eliminated, leaving the two women in the leadership contest.  Unfortunately for Andrea Leadsom, who agreed to be interviewed for a newspaper, the reporter had an agenda to present her in an unfavourable light, quoting her saying she is a mum and therefore would make a better Prime Minister than Theresa May.  No one in their right mind would believe that of Andrea, who had shown herself as intelligent and a good debater for the Leave campaign, totally committed to fight for our country to leave the flawed European Union.

    

Although she hastened to rebut the biased reporter's account at an impromptu press conference, the damage has already taken effect and the TV media had a field day at her expense.  Meanwhile, Theresa May cashed in on the situation to put out her story that she actually mentored Andrea when she first came into Parliament in 2010, confirming Theresa May’s upper hand. However, Andrea Leadsom is in a strong position to negotiate a good deal as she knows the EU inside out.  What she said a month ago before the campaign started on the EU referendum shows her commitment and ability to take the country forward to a successful exit of the EU :




"We have huge strengths, not least that we have the best and most innovative financial services industry in the world. London – rated number one in the Global Power City Index for four years in a row – sits at the heart of this diverse industry that stretches from Aberdeen to Bristol, from Birmingham to Bournemouth, and even to Northampton, a bustling financial services area right in my own home town. An incredible two million people are employed in this enterprising industry right across the country and its potential is vast.
 

A free trading, democratic Britain has SO much going for her! Not only is our language, English, the world’s international business language, but we have the best contract law you’ll find anywhere in the world. Our judicial system is consistently rated as one of the least corrupt in the world. All are enormous advantages for businesses looking to start, expand or move here. 

Let me be very clear. EU member states need continued free access to our financial markets regardless of whether we remain politically bound to them or not. The UK accounts for 40 per cent of all wholesale financial markets in the EU, and European businesses depend on continued access to the wealth of expertise and capital that resides here. No financial centre on the continent can even pretend to compete with us – we compete globally, with New York, Singapore and Hong Kong, and that's the facts.
 

We are a truly global player, and I believe if we have the courage to unshackle ourselves from the EU on 23 June we will find we are not dependent on the EU for our success but quite the reverse – the EU is holding us back, preventing us from realising our full potential in the world. 

So I'm unimpressed to hear the Remain camp insisting that a vote to leave means sterling will collapse, inflation will pick up, 3m jobs will be lost, and now, the latest scare story, house prices will collapse. 

My own view, (not an economic forecast but a real world view based on 30 years of experience) is that if we vote to leave the EU on 23 June, the boost to confidence from our newfound freedoms, the prospect of proper control over the costs of immigration, as well as the £10bn per annum "independence dividend", will boost markets and investment and put the UK on a path to long term economic success.
 

Meanwhile, let's keep calm. Nothing will change on 24 June after a vote to leave. The truth is, every bit of EU law is enshrined in UK law, so nothing will change for at least two years while we negotiate the on-going tariff-free trading with our European neighbours, the arrangements for future immigration controls and caps, and the plans for cooperation in intelligence sharing and counter terrorism. 

Don't let anyone tell you these things won't happen. No matter how furious individual European leaders might be that we've had the temerity to opt for freedom and democracy, they still have to get re-elected at home. The European leader who tells Germany's BMW workers, or Spain's Zara staff or Sweden's Ikea employees that they can no longer sell tariff-free to the UK, or who decides not to share information on known terrorist movements, will face disaster at their own ballot box. It is not an option.
 

So I was incredibly disappointed to see that the very man charged with overseeing our monetary policy, the Governor of the Bank of England, went out on a limb recently, to give some totally biased and indefensible predictions about our economy.

Mark Carney’s political “intervention” into the EU referendum debate has been highly damaging for the Bank of England. For an institution with the very grave responsibility of ensuring the short and long-term stability of the country’s financial system whatever the scenario, the Governor's intervention has actually increased the risk of high market volatility ahead of the referendum.

A balanced assessment would have pointed out that there are many risks to staying in. The Eurozone's debt crisis together with their migrant crisis are on-going and unresolved issues of great magnitude, that will have huge consequences for the UK if we remain in the EU. 

UK voters have a fundamental choice to make: do we remain reluctant partners in someone else's failing project, or do we continue to trade with Europe, but also look outwards and embrace the 80 per cent of the world that lies outside the EU, full of vibrant growing and opportunity.

 

Voting to leave the EU on 23 June is the UK’s best hope for continued success. Let’s take back control."

Andrea Leadsom

Just heard the news that Andrea has today announced her withdrawal from the leadership contest, saying the country needs a leader as soon as possible to get the country up and running, giving Theresa May her best wishes and assuring her of her full support on becoming Prime Minister. 

I should have published earlier Andrea’s speech which  she gave a month earlier, outlining her brilliant plan to extricate the UK from the EU and putting various plans in place to take Britain forward into the world towards global trade and prosperity. Let's hope The new Prime Minister will do her best to get as good a deal as Andrea would have done.  Better still, Theresa May should get together a team from the Leave Campaign to help negotiate a good deal.

 

Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty has indeed laid out the means by which a Member State could leave the EU.  However, if we try to leave using Article 50, we might well find that we were never able to leave. Under Article 50, there is a two-year negotiation period which could be prolonged indefinitely by unanimous agreement of EU member states. Even if we did manage to leave using Article 50, we could find ourselves with a ‘deal’ that still required us to pay contributions to the EU budget, having to accept a large proportion of EU laws and with open borders to EU citizens.

The only sure way for Britain to leave the EU is for our Parliament to repeal the European Communities Act of 1972.  This would immediately return supremacy of law to our own Parliament and courts and free us from control by the EU.  Chaos would not ensue because all EU Directives, which have been transposed into Acts of Parliament, would remain in place.  These could then be repealed when needed, leaving what laws we might need to interact with the EU.        

On Wednesday 13th July, David Cameron will go to Buckingham Palace to officially resign as Prime Minister, after which Theresa May will go to see the Queen to officially inform her of her new position as Prime Minister of Britain. We look forward to Theresa May to be appointed our Prime Minister and trust her to do the right thing for a Brexit Britain. 

Congratulations to Nigel Farage for getting our country back!

Character assassination of Nigel Farage by Camilla Long of the Sunday Times on 26th June 2016: "He's only making plans for Nigel",  I sent the following to Letters@sunday-times.co.uk  on July 2nd 2016:


For a man’s character to be so demonised by Sunday Times columnist Camilla Long, (26 June) when Nigel Farage had spent over twenty years of his working life in and out of Brussels, trying to alert our establishment to the flaws of the undemocratic EU, that has made British workers poorer (confirmed by Sigmar Gabriel, the German Economy Minister), and rendered our Parliament of MPs powerless and mere disseminators of EU regulations. 

 

As leader of the UK Independence Party, his manifesto had inspired many of the policies that swept the Conservatives into government last year.  Thanks also to Nigel Farage that our Prime Minister promised to hold the recent referendum which finally vindicated his persistence and the excellent work of UKIP’s 24 MEPs, whose in-depth research had brought to light the underlying weaknesses of this federal Union and its wasteful squandering of British taxpayers’ money that should be spent on our own priorities.     

 

Leaving the expensive Union will bring back British rights for fishermen to fish in British waters, our farmers to grow whichever crops suit them, and our starter enterprises and small businesses can negotiate free-trade with countries of the Commonwealth and the rest of the developing world without having to comply with thousands of EU rules and directives that only big corporations with a large workforce can, and if they wish, they can continue to trade with selected EU member-states by paying a small percentage of levy, rather than the billions of pounds being sent by our Treasury into the EU budget every year.

 

Far from “only making plans for Nigel,” Mr Farage deserves his last laugh of jubilation that had come after years of self-motivation for the country he loves, at a price not many in Camilla Long’s circle could possibly contemplate.

 

Jean Romsey,

Email:  jromsey@yahoo.co.uk


July 4th 2016 - With the resignation of David Cameron as a result of the UK wining the Leave vote, five candidates now contest for position of Prime Minister:  Andrea Leadsom (Leave), Michael Gove (Leave), Liam Fox (Leave), Stephen Crabb (Remain) and Theresa May (Remain) - as Home Secretary she had not been effective in keeping down immigration to the tens of thousands promised by Conservative manifesto, instead had allowed our maritime borders to be breached by 4,600 Albanians, jeopardising UK's security by terminating the £4 million contracts on aerial surveillance in advance of providing alternative border control to replace this vital service.  
 
Sadly, I received the following letter from the Nigel Farage, which will be a big blow to our Party.  In view of so many incriminating accusation from various newspapers and politicians, we respect Nigel's wish to step down from the leadership, having achieved his biggest ambition in life of getting our country back, he now deserves a rest and a bit of peace and quiet to regain his own life back to spend time with family and friends.  We thank him for his hard work and tenacity and hope he will find the time to reflect on his success and rejoice in the result of his achievement. 





Dear Jean,

Statement from Nigel Farage

I have decided to stand aside as Leader of UKIP. The victory for the 'Leave' side in the referendum means that my political ambition has been achieved. I came into this struggle from business because I wanted us to be a self-governing nation, not to become a career politician.

UKIP is in a good position and will continue, with my full support to attract a significant vote. Whilst we will now leave the European Union the terms of our withdrawal are unclear. If there is too much backsliding by the Government and with the Labour Party detached from many of its voters then UKIP's best days may be yet to come.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you the membership for your extraordinary support and generosity over the many years, I could not have done it without you.

Yours as ever,

Nigel Farage

Racism or Migration Watch?

Racism or Migration Watch? 

UKIP leader, Nigel Farage’s poster, “The Breaking Point”, far from being Racist, is a wake-up call for the Tory Government and the Labour Party, to get us out of the EU before a fresh influx of new migrants, at this very moment being granted documents to travel in the Schengen zone and in the UK.  As a member of the EU, Britain has no power to disobey its policy of freedom of people movement; anyone with an EU passport can breeze into the UK as easily as anywhere in the EU.  

The poster, featuring thousands of Syrian refugees and other migrants entering Europe in the last few years, has no bearing on the images of Jews leaving Nazi Germany in WW2.  Yet distastefully, the comparison was drawn by the establishment, inciting racism and hate for the UK Independence Party which had made this EU referendum possible, and completely failing to get the important message that by Remaining in the EU there are more problems arriving to challenge the hard-pressed British people, who are already facing an invasion by EU migrants, in such numbers as never encountered in their lifetime. 

Armed with their new IDs, migrants will be heading for the UK: handouts of £38 per person, medical assessment to eliminate unknown diseases, and issued with a National Insurance Number for job-seeker’s allowance and other family benefits, with the Chancellor’s new £9-an-hour Living Wage requiring no qualifications or the English language, will be an offer found nowhere else on earth!  

EU’s trade agreement with Canada has been ongoing for 9 years; 7 years with China and India, none of which are yet finalised.  How long will it take the EU to incorporate the “reform” negotiated by the Prime Minister to delay for four years before new migrants can claim benefits?  Let’s hope it’s before these migrants are allowed to draw on our pension fund!

Meanwhile, our national debt continues to rise from £1.5 trillion last year.     

In some areas British-born children are being put on waiting lists so East European children, within three years of arriving in the UK, can claim £1,000 per child for their schools to employ extra Russian, Polish or Latvian staff, so lucrative for the education department, that more schools are being built for new arrivals from EU’s 11 ex-Soviet Communist states, turning Britain into a Slavic-speaking country. That will truly please Putin of Russia, and in time the ISIL leaders too, Mr Cameron.

Britain will thrive outside the EU  

Just one hundred years ago Britain had an Empire that stretched across the world; our pioneers were brave; our politicians were energetic and far-sighted.  Our Parliament made laws that improved life in Britain and countries across five continents, in both North and Southern hemispheres.  For centuries our explorers had returned with innovative ideas and creative inventions.  Britons enjoyed drinking tea from the East and coffee from the West and exported our expertise in building bridges and railways throughout the world. 

We were the envy of the Americas as well as of Europe, Asia and the whole world, so much so countries like Germany and Japan made aggressive grab for a slice of our empire and ingenuity, causing the two World Wars which Britain, with the help of global allies, managed to defeat and contain, but the heavy cost depleted all our resources and manpower.  

Many pensioners over age 80 would remember the severe rationing, the immense loss and sacrifices and making do with what minimum, life had to offer.  With no cash or resources for reparation, Britain had to relinquish power for those colonies suitable for self-government, parting with good grace and mutual respect; with such dignity that the Queen is still held in high honour by 53 Commonwealth nations over half a century, a measure of Britain’s achievement no other country had ever attained.  

Our establishment made the biggest mistake not quitting the EEC when Margaret Thatcher voiced her doubts in 1992 about the Maastricht Treaty, which transformed the Common Market into the political European Union, stripping the UK of powers to negotiate with non-EU countries and in less than a quarter of a century, decimated our agriculture and fishery; with wasteful directives that closed many small businesses, village stores, mining and manufacturing industries, and even our steel works today.  

54,000 EU laws had sapped our Parliament of sovereignty.  For Britain to regain our flamboyance and prosperity, we need to rebuild our supremacy over sea and air, recapture our self-reliance and be in control of our own destiny.  The EU is chaotic, disorganised and extremely dangerous for democracy. After 40 years of dependence, our people are ready to take up the rein again.  It’s time for sovereign Britain to thrive outside the EU. It is time to Vote Leave on 23^rd June!

 

Vote to Leave the EU 

I can’t believe the Home Secretary had terminated the £4 million contract with the aviation firm Cobham that provided round-the-clock monitoring over British waters, when CCTV revealed Albanians are being smuggled into Britain over several years. The Home Office had processed over 4,650 Albanian asylum applications, seven out of ten given permission to stay. 

Former head of the Navy, Admiral Lord West said cancelling airborne surveillance had left coastal defence “in a very parlous state”. The MP Christopher Chope told Theresa May, taking away our coastal protection would leave our country vulnerable.  The UK Border Force responsible for tackling illegal immigration is forced to rely on the charity National Coast Watch Institution to help police the region.   

British taxpayers who made this country the fifth largest economy in the world should be adequately protected.  If Albanians can be smuggled ashore, so can ISIL activists in Belgium and France; clearing up their atrocities would be costly and devastating.  Based on our economy this year the EU is likely to demand payment of £19 billion gross into its budget; with a rebate of £4 billion for agriculture and fishery and £4.4 billion given as EU grants or subsidies to Wales, Cornwall, university science & research and other public services, £10 billion could be saved to support the NHS and other priorities, if we vote to leave the EU.  

It’s not right to put British-born children on waiting lists in some schools where Eastern European children arriving in the UK less than three years, get an extra £1,000 per pupil for their schools to employ staff speaking Russian, Polish or Latvian.  At St. Norbert’s Catholic primary school in Spalding, Lincolnshire, 70% of pupils from Eastern Europe (eight years ago it was just 17%) bring in £375,000 a year. 

George Osborne had claimed pensioners would be £32,000 worse off with Brexit, but annuity payouts have plunged nearly 17% in the past year, and new EU rules on Solvency II coming into force, in 3,200 pages of legislation, are forcing insurers to stock-pile cash for emergencies, and will cost a hefty £3 billion to enforce, with complex software.  New savers leaving work now, buying a twenty year retirement pot of £100,000 would receive £10,600 to £15,040 less a year, even before we vote to Leave.  The longer we Remain in the EU the more rules will erode our savings. Fortunately the EU is one mistake we can un-make by voting to leave on 23^rd of June.

EU referendum: Queen reportedly asks dinner guests for ‘three good reasons why Britain should be part of Europe’

Buckingham Palace spokesman says monarch ‘is above politics and acts on the advice of her Government in political matters’ in response to royal author Robert Lacey’s claim

          

Queen Elizabeth II during a reception in Buckingham Palace, London, to mark her 90th birthday PA

The Queen is reported to have asked dinner guests to give her “three good reasons why Britain should be part of Europe”, according to royal author Robert Lacey said the monarch posed the challenge recently.

Mr Lacey told the Press Association: “The Queen likes a healthy debate around the dinner table. It was just a question.
“She's aware of the complexities for different parts of the UK.
“As we know, she's very careful not to betray whatever her personal opinions may be on this. You can say the same of her husband.”

“'Give me three good reasons', she has apparently been asking her dinner companions recently, 'why Britain should be part of Europe?'” Mr Lacey wrote.

Vote to Leave the EU

LET'S DO OUR DUTY!  Take Back Control - Vote Leave on 23rd June, 2016

Cameron wants Turkey to join the EU. Do you?

With just a day to go, it’s clearer now more than ever that the only way to take back control of our laws, our money and our borders is to Vote Leave.

 

On BBC1 Question Time EU Special at 6.45pm on Sunday 19^th June 2016

David Cameron was not truthful in his desperation to win this campaign and refused to say whether he would veto Turkey’s membership of the EU. 

Government slammed for economic forecast

The Government has received widespread criticism for its report on what would happen to the economy after we leave the EU. The Treasury’s report was dismissed by IN campaigner and First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon who described it as overblown and not credible. Meanwhile, even the pro-EU FT said: ‘more likely, the numbers are just made up’. 

The IN campaign cannot make the positive case for staying in the EU, therefore they have resorted to doing Britain down. The reality is that our economy will thrive after we take back control. We can support British businesses and strike our own trade deals with economies around the world to help drive jobs, growth and prosperity. 

UK can protect women’s rights without accepting supremacy of EU law

The IN campaign claimed women’s rights will be put at risk if we Vote Leave.  This is yet another case of those wanting us to stay in the EU doing Britain down. It is disappointing to see that they have so little faith in themselves and other UK politicians to continue to protect the rights of women after we take back control.

The reality is that the UK took steps to protect women’s rights long before we joined the EU, such as ensuring equal pay for equal work and providing support for women when going through a divorce. After we became a member of the EU, the UK Government legislated for paid maternity leave and protection against sexual harassment in the workplace, all without the help of bureaucrats in Brussels. 

On top of this, the UK has lead the way in promoting and protecting workers rights, and it's deeply misleading to suggest that leaving the EU would put them at risk. Workers’ rights are best protected when there is a parliament that is directly accountable to the people; yet the EU prevents this, with unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats imposing rules and regulations which the British people have no say over. 

London is second only to San Francisco in the world tech stakes, according to EY (Source: Getty) 

London has overtaken New York and Shanghai in a global ranking of top tech cities, thanks to its "incredible entrepreneurial attitude".  The capital is now the second most likely city in the world to create the next big tech giant, according to EY’s annual Attractiveness Survey, behind only San Francisco.

The result moves London up from fourth position last year, closing in on its American west-coast rival.

Index has a new $550m VC fund and its eye on London startups 

“That was unimaginable five years ago,” Caroline Artis, EY’s London market segment leader, told City A.M.

“Financial services remains important, clearly it does, but other services – like business services and tech – are now adding to the things that make London seem attractive to the rest of the world.” 

She added: “It’s incredible testimony to the things that have been going on here. You’ve got this incredible entrepreneurial attitude that seems to have grown over the last few years, definitely encouraged by things like Tech City.” 

Some say London’s tech sector is united against Brexit, but campaigners who want to leave the EU hit back. "It is clear if we vote leave the strengths of London, which have made it the financial capital of the world and which we have in abundance, will help us to grow and prosper further," a spokesman for Vote Leave said. 

"Pro-EU supporters have run a campaign of doing down the British economy but  this makes clear Britain is a world leader with a bright future. If we vote leave and take back control then we can ensure that the environment is best suited to entrepreneurs and liberated from the red tape that holds back start-ups and those unable to lobby in the corridors of Brussels." 

EY, which interviewed nearly 1,500 decision-makers across 440 international companies, found that London continues to be “incredibly attractive” to foreign investors across a range of industries.  The survey revealed 2015 was a record year for foreign direct investment (FDI) into the UK and the capital. During 2015, London secured 406 FDI projects – up seven per cent on 2014 – which created an estimated 7,026 jobs. 

London outperformed all other European cities surveyed. Some 57 per cent of investors named London as being in their top three European cities for FDI, ahead of second-placed Paris with 43 per cent. 

Lord Owen, backing Vote Leave, has dismissed the “voices of doom” warning against Brexit, saying "the sooner the UK can quit the EU, the better; the quicker it began, the less likely the UK was to be “dragged down” should the Eurozone collapse. The former SDP leader accused Downing Street of “manipulating the FTSE 500” to back the Remain campaign.

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party admitted that there is no limit to immigration as long as we are a member of the European Union. 

Dr Chris Leigh of the Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University has debunked claims that science in the UK would suffer if the country leaves the EU.  He pointed to the fact that only about 3% of funding for research at UK universities comes from the EU, through its Horizon 2020 programme.   By contrast, about 45% comes from business and 35% from UK government and not- for-profit sources. 

Collaboration

13 non-EU countries take part in the Horizon 2020 programme and there would be no reason why the UK could not continue to participate.

Alternatively the British government  could meet any shortfall in funding directly from the savings that will be made by not paying into the EU.

Strong Scientific Standing

The UK has 0.9% of the world’s population, but 3.3% of its scientists, who produce 6.9% of the world’s scientific output and 15.1% of the most highly cited papers. Those who argue UK science will suffer ignore the reality of the UK’s strong scientific standing.

 

We have already seen here in the UK the reduction of wages, increasing the wage gap between rich and poor resulting from the burgeoning immigrant population, we have seen how the growth in our GDP, a figure much vaunted by our government, has not kept pace with the growth in our population. This last aspect is not only downplayed by our government but indeed lied about with their proven understatements of how many, by fair means and foul, have come here to grace our green and pleasant land.

 

TRADE unions have slammed the “myth” that Britain’s membership of the European Union boosts workers’ rights. The RMT, ASLEF and the bakers’ union BFAWU last night issued a joint statement explaining why they back Brexit. They attacked David Cameron’s deal to reform Britain’s role in the EU, saying he secured “only very minor changes”. The 28-member bloc “acts overwhelmingly in the interests of big business” instead of ordinary Britons, they added. 

Many in the “Remain” campaign told us that British people can travel to other EU countries to live and work under EU law.  Would British children receive the same benefits and education in Romania or Bulgaria?

Are they likely to receive reciprocal health benefits?  And above all, are the British people fairly served by this Tory Government, fighting so hard to keep Britain in an undemocratic EU, being controlled by thousands of EU rules with prospects of being conscripted into the EU Armed Forces?

 

In a detailed review of the 2015/16 financial year, the influential King’s Fund think-tank found 67% of NHS trusts ended the year on deficit – including 86% of acute hospitals. Some 65% of NHS trust finance directors thought patient care had got worse over the last year, as did 54% of finance heads from clinical commissioning groups, which look after a large chunk of the NHS budget and manage local services. More than half of finance directors expect their trust to end the next financial year in deficit, too, and are “very pessimistic”, the report said.

The LEAVE campaign has pledged the £350 million we save by leaving the EU, to various priorities such as the NHS, which will help alleviate the dire funding problems they face by the end of the next financial year.

Telegraph reported: David Cameron abandoned plans to make Parliament supreme over European courts as ministers admitted the proposals were “unworkable” with Britain in the EU. In a row that overshadowed the Queen’s Speech, the Prime Minister was accused by Iain Duncan Smith, a former Cabinet minister, of “jettisoning” domestic priorities because of his “helter skelter” attempt to win the upcoming EU referendum.

 

The Guardian reported: Rent bills are likely to fall if Britain exits the EU and property will become more affordable to first-time buyers, according to the bodies that represent the UK’s estate agents and landlords. The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and the Association of Residential Letting Agents (Arla) said that Brexit would cut levels of immigration and depress future price rises, leaving the average UK house worth £2,300 less in 2018, and £7,500 less in London.

 

The EU intends to implement full economic and financial governance of its member states from Brussels, to create its own armed forces to implement its Foreign and Security Policy, and import millions more migrants from Africa, the Middle East and beyond to form a United States of Europe and after the British Referendum, whatever the result, that project will resume. 

We need to vote LEAVE the EU on Thursday, 23^rd June 2016 and Take Back Control of our borders to stem the EU migration.

 

Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty laid out, for the first time, the means whereby a Member State could leave the EU; however, we might find that there is a two-year negotiation period which could be prolonged indefinitely by unanimous agreement of EU member states. Even if we did manage to leave using Article 50, we could find ourselves with a ‘deal’ that still required us to pay contributions to the EU budget, having to accept a large proportion of EU laws and with open borders to EU citizens.

 

The only sure way for Britain to leave the EU is for our Parliament to repeal the European Communities Act 1972. This would immediately return supremacy of law to our own Parliament and courts and free us from control by the EU. Chaos would not ensue because all EU Directives, which have been transposed into Acts of Parliament, would remain in place. These could then be repealed when needed, leaving what laws we might need to interact with the EU (if it continues to exist).

 

Jean Romsey,  Email: jromsey@yahoo.co.uk   Tel: 023 80760758