BREXIT REALLY DOES MEAN BREXIT !

Those who refuse to accept the result of the EU referendum continue to try to scare our population into changing its mind on the matter. Today, it was the turn of the oily Peter Mandelson who trotted out the same tired old clichés on the 'Today' programme.

As with all of his like-minded pals, Mandelson repeatedly uses meaningless phrases such as 'hard Brexit', suggesting that the government is hell bent on some sort of horrible action that will hurt us all. The fact is that there is no 'hard Brexit' any more than there is a 'soft Brexit'; there is no option to leave the European Union but stay inside the Customs Union and Single Market which is the supposed 'soft Brexit' option promoted by the dyed in the wool remainers. Banal as it sounds, Brexit does actually mean Brexit - the UK will leave the EU in March 2019 and what matters are the bilateral agreements that are then put in place, not any nonsense about staying in various bits of the EU.

Remainers are continuing to make the same arguments that they made in 2016; leaving the EU will destroy our economy, the pound will collapse, everyone will be poorer, blah blah. So far, it hasn't happened and the truth is that it won't. Yes, there may be a few rocky times but aren't there always ? The UK has suffered a few unpleasant economic times over the last 40 years - Healey's trip to the IMF, our exit from the ERM and the 2008 'crash' among them; we were INSIDE the EU on these occasions and at least one of them was directly caused by the EU.

Remainers tell us, repeatedly, that 'everyone knows' that Brexit will be disastrous and a 'hard Brexit' the worst of all worlds. Quite clearly, 'everyone' does not 'know' this and it is just more of the scaremongering which is the only real weapon of this undemocratic bunch of elitist, left-leaning, so-called intellectuals.

There will be a deal. It may come at the last second of the last minute but it will come. It will also be realistic. The UK will agree to pay some money but not as much as some have suggested. There will be a trade deal, largely because the EU wants it as much as does the UK. The UK's involvement in a variety of European organisations and projects will continue through partnership agreements. The European Court of Justice will  no longer have power over the UK. European citizens in the UK and UK citizens in Europe will all be protected.

All of this will happen because it must. The political posturing of the puffed up bureaucrats of the EU will dissolve into nothingness as the desperate need for an agreement becomes apparent to all. Pragmatism will prevail over hype and rhetoric, obstructionist jargon and political shilly-shallying.

Roll on April 2019 when all of this twaddle will be over.