Why didn’t Theresa May tell the EU how we were going to leave instead of asking how it should be done?

Her ‘negotiations’ are becoming a national humiliation and her Government, hamstrung by the likes of our MP Sarah Wollaston, is on the point of caving in and capitulating on everything so the UK becomes a mere vassal state. Project Fear failed so now we are being spun the line that membership of the EU is so complicated and deeply engrained in our lives that only partial extrication over an open-ended transition period may be possible.

This country mobilised for a world war in less time than the nine months our PM took to draft and deliver Article 50 which was notice of our intention to leave the EU.

June 23 was two years since our vote for independence and what progress has been made? It is high time that both our PM and MP grew a backbone and got on with the mandate they have been given, no ifs, no buts. Either that or stand down and let politicians who understand the meaning of democracy take on their mantle and ‘get on with the job’ as suggested by our Foreign Secretary.

Our MP is obsessed with the statement written on the side of the Vote Leave campaign bus. “It’s a disgrace and we should call it out,” she claimed before voting that Dominic Cumm­ings, its political adviser, should be questioned by the Culture Select Committee. Presumably the purpose of this was to humiliate the ‘Leave camp’. Hardly an unbiased view, Sarah.

It is time that she acknowledged the lies told during the campaign by Project Fear. Step forward David Cameron, George Osborne, Mark Carney, the CBI, the BBC, President Obama, (flown in to tell us we’d be at the ‘back of the line’), et al. These are eclipsed by the biggest deception and the biggest lie of all by Tory PM Ted Heath in 1975. He knew full well Britain’s entry into the Common Market was but a step in the long term plans of the creation of a federal state and that this inevitably entailed sacrificing our independence and the dismantling of our nation state.

The people who voted in 1975 have lived through the consequences of being in the EU and the majority of them voted to leave 41 years later.

Will there be another generation of Brixham fishermen or is Sarah assisting the Government in relegating that British industry to the history books? Her lack of focus on the plight of a key industry in the biggest town in her constituency beggars belief. ‘Given that unfortunately fishermen’s rights have been traded away during the transition period...’ her question in House of Commons began. What fight did she put up to support our fishermen regaining the 200 mile exclusive economic zone, her constituency’s greatest renewable resource?

Why didn’t she attend the Fighting For Our Fish debate in Brixham to educate herself if she didn’t understand how Brexit could repatriate £6bn-£8bn in resources and rejuvenate our coastal communities?

Sarah ‘came into politics to campaign for health’. While laudable this should only be part of her job. She is not employed as a one-trick pony but to represent all of her constituents and their diverse requirements.

Businesses hate uncertainty. Farmers cannot plan their capital investments, fishermen need to know whether to order new equipment. Two of the key industries in this rural constituency are on hold while our MP’s anxiety over a smooth transition undermines negotiations.

Subverting our democratic vote makes Sarah unfit for election. How do her constituents know what they were voting for? She has not upheld the General Election 2017 manifesto pledges and seems to think that she can put her own spin and interpretation on what ‘leaving the EU’ means.

Sarah, could you tell us why you are in favour of your country’s continued subservience to an unelected, unaccountable, antidemocratic bureaucracy which is reliant on endless money printing for its existence? The 54 per cent of your constituents who voted Leave need to know.

Ceri Jayes

Chairman, Totnes branch UKIP