Think again over impact of Brexit
Brexit Impact Studies, prepared by the government, released to MPs and leaked to the press, reveal that every area of the UK will suffer a decline in GDP, resulting in a decline in living standards.
In the West Midlands this decline is predicted to be at best 2.5 per cent if the UK stays in the single market but up to a 13 per cent decline with a hard Brexit.
The report also stated that the retail sector could see its costs rise by 20 per cent after Brexit, with food prices rising by 16 per cent.
The effects of Brexit will be diverse but the economic effects will impact every one of us and on that front the message is crystal clear: if Brexit goes ahead we will be worse off.
The Shrewsbury and Atcham MP Daniel Kawczynski is a member of the European Research Group who are pushing for a hard Brexit and whose members have cast doubt on the findings of their own civil servants!
They still refuse however to make the impact studies public.
Every living former prime minister, both Conservative and Labour, has spoken out against Brexit and just last week John Major described it as being an act of “economic self harm”.
It is time to think again and above all for individuals to make their views known to their MP so that the MP can act in the interests of his own constituents.
C Jenkins, Shrewsbury
