EU is blocking Brexit progress

This could well mean that neither side gets anything from our decision to leave the EU.

I draw this conclusion from considering press reports of the mood of the current negotiations between the UK and EU representatives.

Our negotiators offer ways forward and the EU negotiators reject them. They say we are not offering enough to satisfy the future of EU citizens, how the UK/Eire border will work and how much we are prepared to pay to leave. What they are really trying to achieve is not a solution to these subjects but to prolong the negotiating exercise and avoid having to address the issue of a free trade agreement.

I think the EU negotiators know only too well that a free trade agreement between the two parties is the sensible way forward and once they start to address the issue they will come under intense pressure from EU industrial interests to negotiate such an agreement.

In view of our membership of the EU for the last few decades this is, surely, the correct way to proceed, however, this would go against the main tenet of EU membership which is free trade = free movement and they know only too well that the UK voted to leave the EU primarily to bring control of immigration back to our shores.

We also have to consider, especially in relation to recent comments from Mr Juncker, that the unelected that control the EU are constantly seeking to establish a single European establishment with common taxes, common laws and an EU army. Negotiating free trade agreements is not their primary concern anymore!

Michael Calldine

Kingswinford