Brexit and My MP - Part 51

Dear Mrs Milton,


I have refrained from writing to you for some months for fear of sounding like a cracked record. However, Mrs May’s recent announcement of her resignation date plus the results of last week’s European elections prompt me once again to put finger to keyboard.


May I start with the question of a new Conservative Party leader and, hence, likely new Prime Minister. I am horrified by the number of candidates who have publicly announced that they would countenance a no-deal Brexit. Informed analysis from a wide variety of credible sources clearly shows that a no-deal Brexit would be highly damaging to the UK economy, would hurt the economies of many, if not all, the remaining 27 EU countries with further repercussions on the relationships between those countries and the UK, and could well exacerbate the increasingly fractured social fabric of Britain. To espouse such a policy seems to me to run counter to everything that our Members of Parliament, and particularly our Prime Minister should be seeking to achieve – which is the best for the country and its peoples. I hope you will do everything you can to ensure that no party leadership candidate who is willing to consider a no-deal Brexit makes it to the last two to be voted for by the wider party membership. To have such a candidate become Prime Minister will serve only to increase the already chaotic Brexit situation.


Moving on to the European elections, although turn-out was on a par with previous such elections and less than for the 2016 advisory referendum, none-the-less it is clear that “remain” and “leave” sentiments are roughly evenly matched. Indeed, given that there would appear to be no single form of Brexit that gains universal acceptance within the “leave” camp it could be argued that “remain” is, in fact, the majority view in the country. Three years on from a lie-riddled, mendaciously-tainted referendum it is surely time that the whole question of the UK leaving the European Union is revisited from scratch.



Yours sincerely,




Richard Bawden