The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
After another few weeks of political turmoil many people I speak to are totally fed up with Brexit and who could blame them?
After two years of so-called negotiations the situation is a shambles.
We are being led to believe that we have a choice between a bad deal or a no deal situation.
This is a false choice and how can such a divided government bring the people of Britain together?
Many of the promises made by Theresa May have been broken and a deal that should have brought Britain together will not work being limited in aim and vague in detail.
Instead of no more contributions to the EU the PM got a divorce bill of £39bn, with more to come.
With no protection for jobs, the economy, workers’ rights and a failure to guarantee no hard border in Ireland on a permanent basis, this is a
‘Blindfold Brexit’ that falls short on protections for workers’ rights and a barrier-free access to the Single Market.
Rather than a proper framework setting out terms to be implemented the deal will be accompanied by a non-binding declaration. This will buy May’s government time to defer the political decision about the future trade deal until after the UK has left the EU in March.
The withdrawal agreement and political declaration, taken together as the deal, provides no answer to the concerns and issues raised around the referendum in 2016.
This false choice of a harmful Tory deal or no deal is a trap and takes us closer to the cliff edge.
If this government cannot table a deal after all this time maybe it’s time to step aside and let a government that can. The prospect of a General Election may become a real prospect in the very near future.
Rodney Sadd
Spalding
