Brexit may take a decade to bear truly significant fruit… but it will

Brexit reality

SEVEN years ago today Leave won the epic battle for Brexit . . . only for a band of extremist, quasi-religious Remainers to launch a campaign of lies aimed at turning back the clock.

Their idea, even now, is to persuade the nation our historic decision “has failed”, hoping ultimately to get us back into the EU.

These cynical propagandists, without evidence, blame all our woes on Brexit.

They even sneer that most Leavers regret their vote. It’s drivel.

A major new survey reveals that they regret only this: That politicians have not yet capitalised on the new freedoms they voted for. The vast majority would vote Leave again.

And though Leavers might currently be outnumbered, we’ll bet new young Remainers would recoil at the reality:The hideous division of another poll, taxes rising to fund EU membership, the Pound scrapped, our laws crafted in Brussels, our own trade deals binned.

But we must say this too: It is ludicrous for anyone, on any side, to declare yet that Brexit is a success or a failure.

We left the EU fully only in January 2021. Every moment since has been overshadowed by Covid, war and the horrific economic fallout from both.

Blaming Brexit for our problems with those two giant calamities crushing our economy is dishonest, opportunist tosh.

We are just two years into what was always a long-term project.

Brexit may take a decade to bear truly significant fruit. But it will.

Train wreckers

FIRST they targeted sporting fixtures, now it’s kids’ longed-for summer holidays.

The bully-boys of the hard-left RMT rail union are beneath contempt.
They can see the state of the economy.

Their priority seems to be to worsen it, to inflict more political pain on the Tories and hammer the travelling public they hope will blame the Government.

Despite their claims of innocence it’s no coincidence their new strikes will also hit two Ashes Tests and The Open.

They have rejected a decent pay offer many other workers can but dream of.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

Wally Hammond

PHILIP Hammond was a dismal Chancellor transformed by Brexit Derangement from grey dullard into Remoaner fruitloop.

So we should not be surprised that his glib remedy for taming inflation is straightforwardly mad: Import yet more cheap migrant workers to undercut Brits’ wages and suppress pay.

One question, among many: Where would they all live? Certainly not in the leafy Surrey constituency he once held.

They would mainly converge on London, adding even more nightmarish pressure to the property rental market.

A disaster, like Hammond at the Treasury.