A local resident has written what he calls an open letter to our local MP, Nigel Adams, and published last week in The Selby Times. He is clearly a leaver and the sub editor has given the letter the title: Where's our update after Brexit. I reprint the letter below:-
Your constituency at the referendum voted decisively to leave the European Union.
Many months later the electorate are no wiser as to what is happening to achieve this than on the day of the vote. Hardly an example of dynamic leadership?
“Brexit means Brexit” is becoming to sound very hollow.
Negotiations are only as complex as bureaucrats and politicians make them.
An old saying, but prevalent today is: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”.
The Eurozone is collapsing, major member nations practically bankrupt, unsustainable ideology set in stone, Brussels completely intransient [sic].
Ask anyone in Selby, the majority will tell you the time has come for Britain to stand tall and brook no further nonsense from non elected, self gratifying “jobsworths” in Brussels whose affinity and respect for us is zero.
Downing Street should face facts, Brussels is never going to be sensible, they know when we do leave the EU will collapse like a pack of cards.
It has been noted you rarely speak publicly supporting the majority view, let alone heard to criticise the government. You surely can’t agree with everything they do. Could be time for Jacob Rees-Mogg to move north.
I assume the writer was ecstatic when Theresa May pronounced that "Brexit means Brexit" but now thinks it sounds "hollow". Well that's a start at least in his slow and painful reintroduction into reality. He is obviously angry at all the delays and wants the government to get on with it. However, I think it points to a wider problem for the government and Nigel Adams. Brexit was sold as something that could be done quickly, simply, cheaply and without any economic cost. It is clear that none of this was or will ever be true.
Remainers are bound to be unhappy when we leave the EU. No doubt the government has comforted itself by thinking at least the 52% who voted to leave will be happy with what Mrs May is doing. But it is becoming clear that it is no longer 52% and many of the reduced number are also unhappy. The wholly inflated and exaggerated claims for Brexit are suspiciously slow at materialising and there is no sign of Britain "standing tall" as our writer and many others hoped. So the Conservative party is getting itself into a position where nobody is happy. They are indeed tethered to the mast of Brexit.
