A letter I sent to Theresa May regarding the Chequers Plan:
Dear Mrs May,
I write in support of the Get Britain Out campaign.
I too voted to leave, not to be tethered by the back door to the EU.
Following the publication of the plan, I ask if the following still applies:
‘Brexit means Brexit’ – your proposed plan is not Brexit as I know it.
‘No deal is better than a bad deal’ – your proposed plan is a very bad deal for the UK, so it is not time we declared a
No Deal and walked away.
Your ‘harmonisation’ plan implies that the UK Parliament could vote against new rules/laws that it is opposed to.
You know that is simply not true.
The minute Parliament votes against any new or existing rules it will be in breach of the harmonisation plan which will result in the UK being hauled before ECJ and fined/punished for daring to challenge the mighty EU. In short your plan sells the UK down the drain.
The UK trades with over 111 countries under the WTO* regulations without having to pay them or put up with their rules or freedom of entry by their nationals. Further more, the trade with these countries is more beneficial to the UK, it has also grown at a faster rate than that with the EU.
I plead with you to understand the sense of betrayal that so many object to and not sell the UK short again.
The EU is not the world. There is a far bigger world of potential trading partners than the unprincipled EU.
Fortune favours the brave. You only get one chance to clear a precipice. This is our chance to do so. Please do not waste it.
Phillip James
Fleet Hargate
* The EU have already signalled that they will not comply with the WTO regulations in the event of a No Deal.
Is that the sort of organisation that you are so keen to tether the UK to?
