I am becoming increasingly concerned at the hysterical response adopted towards Brexit by our local MP.

In a constituency –?note the constituency not the voting area – where a majority voted Brexit, she has constantly sought to thwart the Government’s position, contrary to the manifesto on which she was quite happy to stand at the last election. She has recently tweeted “the reality of hard Brexit will be very different from all the false promises and those who facilitated the chaos will never be forgiven”.

This was one of her milder guesses at what she claims are the facts of Brexit. It seems more appropriate to the position Dartmothians find themselves in without a hospital.

As discussed in Letters previously, she appears to lack basic economic understanding of the facts surrounding business and continually describes no deal as “cliff edge”.

However, she fails to answer positively why we ought to pay billions a year to a trading bloc to allow them to import more to us than we export to them, as well as imposing laws upon us and telling us who can and can’t come to this country.

The vote was to leave or remain and the democratic vote was to leave.

The term ‘hard Brexit’ is an invention of our MP and her ilk to scare people. For many not in possession of the facts this can be frightening, as are scare stories of empty supermarket shelves and planes not flying.

Instead of getting behind the democratic vote and seeking to have an orderly Brexit, she has continually voted against the Government, while accusing the hundreds of other Tory MPs who don’t agree with her of being hard Brexiteers.

Of course we want a deal, just as Japan and Canada recently got, neither of which has freedom of movement, ECJ jurisdiction over their domestic courts or indeed the Euro.

WTO tariffs mean that the EU will pay far more to us than we pay to them so a deal would also be in their interest. It is very wrong of our MP to say as she has “most people would be relieved to wake up and find Brexit was just a bad dream rather than the nightmare that is tearing us apart”, when she has absolutely no evidence at all of that. I am sure there are many in the constituency, a silent majority, who wish to speak out against Project Fear and the appalling way our MP has acted, but don’t have the forum to do so.

I invite that silent majority to contact me so that together we can show the strength of feeling about this matter.

Please contact me by email to [email protected].

Martin McGowan-Scanlon

Bay View Estate, Stoke Fleming