Dear Editor, I do not share the view of many of your correspondents that Britain’s decision to exit the European Union was a bad thing.
As a Catholic unionist I would point out that the decision was democratically arrived at and reflected the view of the majority of the British electorate to make their own laws and trade arrangements outside the clutches of the EU with its numerous petty instructions in trade and everyday life.
They also would like control over their own government and politicians, something that they do not have in the EU with its unelected and unaccountable commissioners who dictate to member states.
I would also point out the numerous disastrous policies of the EU, from its failed common currency the Euro, to its disastrous handling of the migrant crisis and its disastrous economic decision that have led to great distress and unemployment in Spain and Greece. To try and pass the EU off as a stable and accountable body is like passing off a broken-down old Volkswagen as a Rolls Royce.
The EU in short is a failure and may – due to demands for referendums in other member states – turn out to be short-lived. I am glad to be shot of it and hope that the Irish people may come to a similar decision and make their own laws and hold their own politicians to account and not simply be the plaything of Brussels,
Yours etc.,
Paul Gracey,
Belfast, Co. Antrim.