THE ultimate responsibility for the electoral debacle lies not with Theresa May, but with the Remoaners, many of them within her own party, whose refusal to accept the democratic result of last year’s referendum and determination to thwart the Brexit negotiations at every turn, meant that Mrs May would be talking with Brussels with one hand tied behind her back.

Realising the impossibility of this situation, she took the courageous decision to call a General Election trusting that the result would give her a clear mandate and strengthen her bargaining position.

Had the Remoaners shut up and accepted the democratically expressed will of the people of this country, there would have been no need for her to call a General Election.

Unfortunately, thanks again to the Remoaners, this gave Jeremy Corbyn and his comrades the opportunity to peddle their ‘pie in the sky’ manifesto – based on the usual Labour economic policy of spend, spend, spend without the vaguest idea of where the money was coming from – and people (millions of them first-time voters who have never experienced the dire consequences of Labour’s incompetence when it comes to money-management) fell for it hook, line and sinker!

Now of course, Mrs May’s erstwhile supporters are circling like sharks to tear her to pieces.

June 8, 2017 is a date that the people of this country will live to regret.

ROBERT READMAN

Norwich Avenue West, Bournemouth

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