Response To Theresa May's Speech.

Theresa,

I DO NOT STAND WITH YOU. You may say you stand with me, but I fear that you are at odds with the majority of the nation. You are deluding yourself if you actually think you are in step with the majority of people outside of Parliament.

The majority wish to leave on the terms set out leading up to the 2016 referendum. Those terms were clear and unequivocal: We were told if we voted leave, The UK would leave the EU apparatus, we would leave the customs union, we would leave the single market and we would leave the jurisdiction of the ECJ.

These were couched as threats prior to the referendum. If we voted leave, we would suffer the consequences of exiting all of the apparatus and institutions of the EU politically, economically and legally.

And we still voted to leave, because those terms were exactly what the majority of the country wanted.

However, the deal that you have  done with the EU reneges on every one of those threats or promises that the Conservative party made prior to the vote.

If MPs vote to accept your deal, we will be tied all of the above for at least 2 years and possibly for ever. Especially if the backstop is triggered.

The people were clear in June 2016 on what they were threatened with should we dare to vote leave. We know what we were promised. We voted leave anyway, because that is what we wanted.

Your cowardice after the vote is clear for everyone to see. I know you are scared, I know you fear being the person responsible for legislation. But that's what the people want: someone responsible that they can vote in our out of office. We do not want unelected beaurocrats in the EU making our laws.

We voted leave in 2016, despite the warnings, despite project fear. We gave a clear mandate to the government, YOUR Government to leave the EU. It was then the job of government to manage the process of leaving.

It was not for government to keep us in the customs union, despite the threats and promises government made to us.

It was not for Government to keep us in the single market, despite the threats and promises made to us by Government.

It was not for Government to keep us in the EU tariff area. We wanted a clean break so we could start negotiating deals around the country.

It was not for government to tie us to the ECJ. We wanted rid of the idiocy and bias of the European Courts.

We wanted to be on our own.

Last night, your speech proved to the population of the UK that you had not understood a single iota of what we wanted and voted for back in June 2016.

You do not stand with us. You stand apart. You stand alone. You have no support from the majority of the population, nor the majority of MPs in Parliament.

It is time you considered your position and the position of your government.