Editor

Why should police and crime commissioner Arfon Jones apologise for speaking the truth about the disastrous consequences of Brexit for the UK, and mainly for Wales?

Wales will suffer even more than most other parts of the UK because nearly two thirds of Welsh exports go to the EU, much more than the UK export.

When tariffs come in, the industries supplying them will not be able to compete and will disappear with loss of many jobs.

Wales’ seven major ports support roughly 20,000 jobs and contribute a large chunk to the Welsh economy.

Delays because of new required licences and documentations will deter customers from using those ports, and this business will move to ports in England and Scotland, who can go via Northern Ireland.

Again, a loss of huge revenue and jobs.

Welsh farmers export 90 per cent of their lamb to the EU. Tariffs will reduce profits to uneconomical levels and will destroy this industry.

Money will stop coming into Wales from the EU. Wales has benefitted from a yearly sum of £680 million.

This precious support for Wales will stop.

Wales will not be able to attract doctors, nurses, and other health workers to look after people here, because of restrictions on immigration, imposed by Brexit.

Prices of foods and all other goods from the EU will increase, again, because of Brexit restrictions.

And this long list was true even before our current dire circumstances because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

We are facing a disaster, and calling the vote for Brexit “turkeys voting for Christmas” is not an offence, but a moderate description of what will happen soon enough.

Vered Rutter Llwyngwril

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