Dear anonymous EU Flag Mafia

Before you graffiti our city in favour of a foreign power, remember that nearly 500 MP’s voted for Article 50 and the Withdrawal Act. Both Labour and Conservative manifestos promised to leave the Customs Union and the Single Market.

In the Referendum campaign ‘Remain’ repeatedly said leaving the EU means leaving both. Your memory is short but millions of us remember this.

Immediately after the Referendum Theresa May offered the EU a deal on citizens’ rights and trade. The EU walked away.

In her Florence speech she promised a comprehensive co-operation agreement to our mutual benefit if the EU would work in partnership.

But the EU has never negotiated in good faith. It wants to punish us for making our democratic decision and warn voters in other countries not to copy us. It threatens us with food and medicine shortages.

You claim to be patriots but you support this bullying and blackmailing of our country.

Don’t you remember that the leaders of all three main parties promised to honour the Referendum result, with no renegotiation and no second referendum? Instead, many MP’s have broken their word.

They now shamefully act in consort with the EU to delay and thwart Brexit-even by advising the EU how best to do this behind our backs. Is this the action of patriots?

The 1950 Schuman Declaration publicly proposed independent nations working together. Privately Schuman aimed for a United States of Europe. This needed to be accomplished by stealth as most Europeans would never accept the openly declared destruction of their independence.

Over the course of 40 years many of us who supported European Economic Community membership woke up to this.

In June 2016 millions of British people gave our decision. Over three years later due to mendacious MP’s we still have not left. If you are indeed patriots, then target them.

Yours faithfully

Francis Lankester PhD