Hello Barbara and Michael,My apologies to all, but this will be a long comment....Firstly, Barbara. If you consider remainers to be dishonest and lacking integrity, I assume you consider this of the PM too. Have you really studied the Withdrawal Agreement at all? What I can say, with stronger conviction than anything else, going back to the troubles and the IRA are a no-no with me. I also would like to state most categorically that I will defend the NHS tooth and nail and continuing its privatisation is unforgivable. But these are two points only within a myriad of important issues. If the UK is to succeed, we must compete with India and China as well as other countries. So, I look at the UK and say, what with? Apart from the City being the cockpit of the economy, there is not much out there to be the fuselage to allow it to take off. Why? We no longer have backup industries, which is heart breaking.Secondly Michael. I will start from the beginning if you do not mind. There was an Empire once, we also had people like Francis Drake (who happened to be a slave trader too but let us leave this matter aside for the time being. I cannot correct the wrongs of yesteryear). The world has changed beyond recognition since those days. Of course we must bear them in mind and we should learn from our past. But we must live today with a view to the future and not rely solely on our past. You say it is now time for 21st century Britons to do our ancestors proud. What I find we have in common with our ancestors is the need to trade and expand. And to do so, in the 21st century, unless we have amazing technology expertise, we also need trade agreements, far and wide! But should we really close the door on our nearest trading partners whose trade is monumentally bigger than the trade we can do with far away lands? I wonder...If I had been a farmer and for whatever reason gave it all away, I have no right to bemoan what I have lost because I decided to give it away. In other words, Brexit is inevitable but why?Above all, I strongly believe we should stop this ridiculous "Leave or Remain" battleground; it is conducive to nothing other than hate, which is not a British trait.The 2016 referendum resulted on the what vote - to leave. It never had an indication of the how. Theresa May said she would conduct negotiations but not give a running commentary on them. Perhaps that was a mistake (or there is no perhaps about it). When her negotiations were published, everybody was shocked - because we all understood Leave to mean different things.Parliament continues to be at an impasse and, hand in heart, it is not only embarrassing but hurtful because we now know our representatives are incapable of representing us all. Yes, all!! If you are a PM or a President you do not govern a country based on those people who voted for you, you must govern a country on the whole. So, I wonder if the Withdrawal Agreement did not meet both camps - incorrectly.Thank you for your patience!!!
Ivonne Holliday ● 2820d