I’ve received a considerable correspondence characterised by bitterness and unpleasantness, Happily, it isn’t from my own constituents. Strangely, most of it appears to come from Scotland. I think stems from an account in the Glasgow Herald about a question I asked in the Commons a full a week before their article.
The gist of the correspondence is that I am a fool (and that is putting it rather more charitably than the emails do) for having voted for Brexit, only now to complain about bureaucracy at the borders.
I’m afraid they’ve got quite the wrong end of the stick. My complaint was one about our own lack of urgency in implementing time-saving digital systems to replace paper. After all, we have -as part of our international development effort- implemented those systems in Africa to promote seamless trade within that continent.
We can get our own house in order, then we’d be in a position to challenge Europe’s level of ambition.
For the avoidance of any doubt, my support for Brexit is undiminished.
Sir Desmond Swayne TD
