• RECENT letters to the Extra bring up several points relating to the Brexit situation, but to my mind many of them appeared to be very much the party line being put out by the present government.

This is the more so given that it very closely resembles the “government versus people” that prime minister Boris Johnson believes is a major strand of his bid for an outright majority. Not that this will be the only such strand.

It’s not hard to imagine the Conservatives will have very little to offer in the way of policy but will go in for Jeremy Corbyn-bashing on a major scale.

Interestingly, on The Andrew Marr Show at the weekend, Priti Patel was asked to respond to comments in David Cameron’s recent book. In doing so, the home secretary played the normal politician’s trick of not answering the question.

In this case, her answer was there is no point in looking backwards. It can be wondered if this will equally apply to digging up details from the Corbyn past.

In doing this, bringing up his past (and make no mistake this will happen- frequently) and his perceived support for “terrorists”, his opponents may want to turn their attention to the origins and history of the Democratic Unionist Party currently propping up the party of Conservatives and Unionists in parliament.

One letter raised the matter of Jo Swinson’s loyalty to the United Kingdom and her ideas of democracy.

On the matter of democracy, perhaps members of the party currently ruling over us might want to explain to us how it is democratic that around 90,000 members of the Conservative Party have elected the prime minister of a state with a population of about 65million people; and is the second in line to do so (and refer to the snide remarks of a certain B Johnson when the premiership passed from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown. Oh how things change.

Something else has changed relating to Brexit. Brextremists are constantly parroting the simple line the referendum ballot paper asked a simple question.

Well yes, but those same supporters now mainly talk about leaving without a deal. By this, the situation now differs. In short, talking about trade deals departs from the details of the original ballot.

If it is impossible for the UK to negotiate such deals while still in the European Union, how is it that France, Germany, can do so?

What occurs to me now is if there can be no UK deals during our membership of the EU, what were all those business people doing following UK prime ministers around the world? Were they all on taxpayer-paid jollies?

As to simplicity of argument, a point raised by me in a very much earlier letter on this count, was to ask where Brextrimists do their shopping?

Do they go dozens of miles to do so or use the nearest shops? In this light, is it such a good idea leave our nearest markets?

H BOURNE
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