Never a possibility of an equitable trade agreement
I AM driven to take issue with the writer of your Opinion column of 14 December [The price of freedom]. Once again, we see the expensively propagated canard publicised that those who voted to escape the EU dictatorship only voted out of ignorance and, by implication, represented only the underclasses of British society.
Those of us who were active on the ground during the referendum campaign know how false this carefully crafted and widely disseminated political disinformation is. The accusation has been swallowed readily by the worshippers of the European religion of fictional Union who have never been able to debate rationally the real issues behind what has been happening in Europe in recent decades.
Like me, many of those who first accepted the new creed of EU-ism came to realise that, far from being a panacea against strife, it was just another attempt to create a pseudo-democratic dictatorship to enslave the peoples of Europe.
Just as thinking Britons revolted against the concept of divine right and eventually overthrew it in the Middle Ages, fought against Napoleon’s dream and National Socialists’ aspirations, so brutally sought; many of us realised that the new religious mania that has gripped many in Europe for decades has been disseminated and exploited by those able to profit from the utopian dream.
Brexiteers took advantage of the arrogance of Britain’s financial, industrial and political elite to finally force politicians to listen to our concerns. We knew that, like our fathers and grandfathers, and, yes, many of our brothers and sisters, we should need, for a period, to make sacrifices for our nation’s freedom. Few of us realised that most of the harm to our economy would be inflicted during the transition period, by the quislings in our midst, as they strove and continue to strive to undermine the expressed will of the British people.
Yes, there were some who had not thought the matter through, just as there were many more who voted to remain because they realised that they might need to give up, for a few years, a modicum of the luxuries and conveniences they currently enjoy. They opted unwittingly to pursue the path to further enslavement of us all.
It should have been obvious to any with even a basic understanding of the EU that there was never a possibility that it would agree an equitable trade agreement with Britain, all the time that there was a chance of keeping us fettered by some EU laws.
MICHAEL A. WARD,
Torteval,
GY8 0PW.