Madam,

I feel the need to make a comment about Patrick O’Brien’s column (Cambrian News, 28 March).

I read all his columns, occasionally agreeing! When it comes to Brexit, we are poles apart.

Last week he compared Brexit with buying a house. You can’t compare Brexit with buying something tangible. The EU is an Institution and is anything but tangible.

Out of the 45 European countries, 27 are member states of the EU. We will not be ‘crashing out of the European Union without any kind of a deal’. If we do not get a ‘deal’ from the EU, and they were never going to give us a deal, we will trade under World Trade Organisation terms as most of the world does.

Of the 135 non-EU members of the WTO, 58 currently trade with the EU under negotiated terms, leaving 77 trading under WTO terms.

I am convinced that if the UK leaves on WTO terms, after a period of punishment for daring to leave is over, EU member countries will be telling the EU to sort out deals.

Finally, one thing that really annoys me is saying that we didn’t know what we were voting for! What condescending tripe. Both leavers and remainers knew what we were voting for.

Everyone can see the way the EU has worked for the last 40-odd years. EU laws trump UK laws, make us have open borders and mean we can’t make our own deals with other countries. It’s all about believing in our country, which I do. I shall keep reading Patrick O’Brien’s column if only to disagree.

Yours etc, Chris Samuel, William Street, Aberystwyth.

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