Reader's Blog: Voting for Brexit was UK’s act of humiliation
In his letter of October 1, Robert Sullivan tells us that the EU is ‘attempting humiliation’ in its negotiation with the UK on Brexit.
In deciding to tear up its agreement with nearly 30 other European democracies and leave the EU, the UK has declared economic war on some of its poorest fellow European countries.
Through Brexit, for example, the UK goes from co-operating with democratic countries that recently were colonies of the Soviet Union to competing with them.
Is it not an irony of history that a democracy, which less than a century ago governed an empire which contained nearly a quarter of the population of the globe and which was on the winning side in two world wars since, should be complaining about being humiliated by the EU which is made up of nearly 30 democracies many of which, including this country, were former colonies?
Is it also not a little ironic that a democracy which is a nuclear power and member of Nato, a permanent member of the security council of the UN, and has one of the largest and most developed economies in the world, should be complaining about being humiliated by the democratic countries of the EU nearly all of which have much less power and influence than the UK?
By voting for Brexit, the UK has shown contempt for the countries of the EU.
By voting for Brexit, the UK has virtually torn up the Good Friday Agreement signed with this former colony.
The attempted humiliation is being perpetrated by the UK not the other way around.
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