I WRITE in support of Roger Hayes in reference to the vote on the Prime Minister’s deal for leaving the European Union.

It is a travesty, not worth the paper it’s written on and should be totally rejected.

Parliament is tearing itself apart; we have a government which produces a paper which says that economically we are all going to be worse off out of Europe, not perhaps not maybe, we are all going to be worse off and it doesn’t matter because we will have our destiny.

We will have chosen a path that will make our children worse off.

"Freedom!" Braveheart shouted, but what price freedom if you die younger because of poverty? No thank you, this is stupidity beyond belief.

So less money to spend on our hospitals, less money to spend on all our people, more children living in abject poverty, but we voted for it and we have our freedom that’s what matters because we have our freedom.

The people that tell you must vote for the Prime Minister’s decisions agree that we going to be poorer, but we’re not going to have any immigration but we’ve got freedom; more homeless people already more than 320,000.

So the people of this country voted to be poorer, for the children to have a worse education, a worse health service and for the elderly to die because of lack of care; to have poorer jobs, to buy from the United States cheaper but poorer food; cheaper yes cheaper!

I can’t wait for the letter from Mr Stuart A Chapman who lives in Ireland, which side of the border I do not know.

If you live in the southern Ireland, you are still in the European Union and if you live in Northern Ireland, you can accept a better deal than the rest of us anyway. Perhaps he can answer when he writes in saying how wonderful this system is and how the government’s economic forecasts are all terribly wrong and paradise is just around the corner.

What really matters is our children and for their sake we should remain. Nobody voted to be poorer, but reality is staring us in the face.

The only option that really matters is the economic one. I made the biggest mistake of my life by voting out at the referendum as the country did as well.

What we need, as Cllr Hayes said is a new referendum and the public if it has any sense at all should vote to remain within the union.

I don’t always agree with Roger. I don’t always agree with most politicians, but this time Roger is right and it’s time the Labour Party got behind the idea of a second referendum and let the people decide.

If we vote to leave again, then so be it, but it will be the poor who will suffer the most in this town.

At least we should have the chance now we know the facts.

Do not leave it to these MPs who are the worst MPs in my lifetime, the most dishonest and corrupt that I have ever seen.

Ian Greenhalgh

Smithills

Bolton