• A MILLION people have marched to be allowed a final vote on Brexit, and an incredible six million have signed the petition to revoke Article 50.

All six million of us received a condescendingly blunt email response from the government: “This government will not revoke Article 50…” There was no “Thank you for your trouble. Sorry to have to disappoint you but…”

Contrast this to the powerful and passionate speeches by Donald Tusk and Guy Verhofstadt in the European Parliament this week.

Tusk fiercely rebuked the few MEPs who had wanted to deny the UK a long extension to Article 50, saying: “You cannot betray the six million people who signed the petition to revoke Article 50, the one million people who marched for a People’s Vote or the increasing majority of people who want to remain in the European Union.

Verhofstadt virulently accused Nigel Farage of failing to lead his supporters. Fortunately, the increasing majority of UK citizens who desperately want to end this Brexit nightmare have some leaders looking after our interests. Unfortunately, those leaders are not UK politicians but EU ones.

And let no one doubt that the EU still wants us to stay, despite all the trouble the UK has shamefully caused it.

CHRIS RADWAY
Founder member,
Islington in Europe