Brexit is not for the short term

From: Laurence Keeley, Fairfield, Herstmonceux
A housing development under construction (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)A housing development under construction (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)
A housing development under construction (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

So, Steve Barrass, and many others, feel leaving the European Union should be reversed.

We will see thousands of lorries stuck at the Dover Port, jobs lost and a free movement of people how awful it will be.

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But let’s look further down the line. We are building houses on brownfields sites, where we could be producing much of what is brought in at Dover.

We don’t need more people in our small country, and with technology replacing the need to employ so we need a new way for housing ourselves and creating food growing farms for young people to work would help. How do we do that? Well,the money we save on our contribution to the EU could underwrite loans to young farmers and to create new long term tenancies for them. But, that will need a change in the law, so not allowing people to buy land as a safe haven for the millions they have in a low interest bank. But to allow them to be landlords, so the farmers don’t have to borrow to buy the land.

We also need to build homes for local workers, so we don’t need to import people from Eastern Europe, We are told the Covid -19 will need to be paid for, why not call it quantitative easing, as the Bank of England have been doing for a long time, that would be replacing the billions of pounds foreign workers have sent out of the country over many years.

Mr Barrass finishes with common sense, which has not been on the equation for the last 50 years.