IT IS NOT surprising that “little or no progress” has been made in the EU Brexit talks.

During the referendum campaign ardent Brexiters were assuring us that leaving the EU would be a straightforward process and anyone who said otherwise was scaremongering.

After the referendum vote however it soon became clear that the Brexiters, including David Davis, Boris Johnson and Liam Fox, had no idea of the complexities involved in leaving the EU.

My guess is that these people did not expect to win the referendum and consequently didn’t do their homework.

They have now found that they have opened a Pandora’s box but rather than admit that they got it wrong they are bent on pursuing the Brexit negotiations to the bitter end.

And bitter it will be for most of us, but not for millionaire Tory politicians or their Fleet Street backers, insulated as they are, by their wealth, from the consequences of their own folly. But there is nothing inevitable about Brexit and the process could be stopped tomorrow.

Talk by Tories of “respecting the democratic decision of the people” is pure hypocrisy.

They couldn’t care less what the people want unless it coincides with what they want.

The referendum was won on the basis of lies and deceit and the promises made at the time cannot be made good. The result was therefore invalid. 

Clive Shakesheff
Lewis Way
Chepstow