TIME TO IMPLEMENT BREXIT, NOT TO RAIL AGAINST IT.

With "Project Fear" still in full swing, it's no surprise that the Director General of the C.B.I. has been on the airwaves again telling us all how terrible Brexit is and what a total catastrophe a "No Deal" Brexit would be. That the C.B.I. represents only a very small section of British companies seems to be considered irrelevant as does that fact the its Director General has little real business experience.

Carolyn Fairbairn, who ahs been the Director General since 2015, is another of the privately educated  and privileged elite who feel that they "know best". Private school, followed by a degree in the largely esoteric subject of Economics at Cambridge, an MA in "International Relations" in the USA and an MBA from the "European Institute of Business Administration", set her up for a career in and around the financial services industry. She has worked for the World Bank, McKinsey's management consultants, the Competition and Markets Authority, the Financial Services Authority, and others, as well as having roles with the BBC and ITV. In other words, she's never had a proper job.

What she knows about  manufacturing industry, retail, pharmaceutical and the rest can probably be written on the head of a pin, and yet she feels able to tell the country what it should do as if she speaks for all UK business and is obviously right. That some of the C.B.I's. members actually think differently is never mentioned. Nor is the fact that the former head of another business organisation, the British Chambers of Commerce, supports Brexit and has taken a leading role in various pro-Brexit groups. In pursuing this course, John Longworth, a state educated and self-made man, found himself at odds with too many of his colleagues and resigned from the B.C.C.; he then stood as a candidate for the Brexit Party and has been elected to the new European parliament in the recent elections.

The media makes much of the rhetoric that issues from the likes of Ms Fairbairn but is mostly oblivious to the voices raised in opposition. Sir James Dyson, Tim Martin of Wetherspoons, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Lord Bamford of JCB - these are significant business figures who are all in favour of ridding themselves of the European straitjacket. Even today, I've seen or heard reports and interviews which have been blatantly biased against Brexit, Carolyn Fairbairn being feted by the BBC, and 2 non-entities being given airtime on Sky, one an out and out left wing Remainer and the other calling the Daily Telegraph newspaper a 'comic'. Where were the voices in opposition from the other side of the argument ?

With the left leaning, liberal elite so determined to do anything and everything to prevent Brexit, it is astonishing that there is still such a groundswell in its favour. Threats of economic collapse and political mayhem have still not convinced the populations to convert ; yes a second referendum may produce an opposite result but by no more that the 52 - 48 result of the first. What then ?

Why in God's name can't the Fairbairns of this world simply shut up and accept the result of the 2016 referendum ? Whether they like it or not, the people voted for Brexit and it's time that they knuckled down to doing what is necessary to implement that decision, rather than spending their time trying to reverse it.