I recently took part in a referendum, a once-only referendum without a second or third vote mentioned in order for any side to ultimately get the result THEY wanted.

It was purely a once-only vote, end of story.

Like every other Leave voter, I weighed up the information at hand, realizing that there would be short-term wobbles but, certain that we’d ultimately prosper outside of the EU, I voted to leave. My vote was not given without much thought or given lightly and I fully understood the information at hand.

Since the vote the economic news has been incredibly positive, with the stock market bouncing back superbly, none of the doom forecasts coming true – so far – with America, China, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and several smaller nations already stating they are keen for no-strings attached trade deals with us and even numerous EU leaders are stating quite openly that they want us to get a more than sympathetic outcome from the forthcoming negotiations because they want to preserve trade links with us.

We had one set of bad results and, almost within minutes, pro-Remain supporters are announcing that they might have found a technicality in the wording of “Clause 50” to stop us leaving the EU, they might find some obscure way of blocking it, delaying it, etc., etc. Sorry, it’s pathetic!

Nicola Sturgeon has just failed with what must be her fifth effort to derail the process yet shows no inclination to stop. We might have a few tariffs to pay – if the EU are stupid enough to go down that route - but we’ll get far more back than we pay because the EU sells more to us than we do to them. But even if we did lose a tiny bit of trade with the EU, we’d make up that loss many times over by trading far more with the rest of the world.

The future is very, very bright . . . why can’t some Remain supporters see and accept that?

Philip Munro
Davyhulme