Letters: Frenchman Barnier still does not get Brexit

Connexion reader says the EU's chief negotiator clearly fails to see why Britain voted to leave the European Union

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Reader says that the UK had little influence in the EU despite 40 years of membership and sending it billions of pounds every year
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To the Editor,

I have just read your online article written by Michel Barnier.

Mr Barnier obviously feels he has been neglected recently, hence the need for an article in The Connexion.

He still does not understand British thinking and why the British people voted to leave the EU.

Britain was a member of the EU for some 40 years. In this time the EU was more than happy to take money from Britain (which was the second largest contributor to the EU after Germany) but Britain had less and less influence with Brussels.

Originally an association for the reduction of trade barriers and European harmony, the EU has morphed into a more centralised organisation, less democratic and more dictatorial towards its members, with a never-ending supply of more and more regulation.

That is why Britain wanted to come out of the EU. 

Tony Hillyard, Manchester

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