Dear Mr Clark,
I write to complain about what feels like treachery by our Prime
Minister for allowing such a poor deal on Brexit even to be considered as
acceptable to the British population.
I spent the first 5 years of my life in Jersey, daughter of a non-Jersey
born clergyman. It was only by the grace of God, or maybe more accurately the
decision of the Bishop of Winchester who offered my father a living near
Bournemouth, which saved him from being sent to a Nazi concentration camp.
A search light camp was established adjacent to our vicarage – later bombed.
During the war we had evacuees and after the war we gave refuge to starving
children from the Netherlands.
As a child I followed D Day and the liberation of France, Belgium and
the Netherlands by the British Army, Navy and Airforce and lived through the
years of shortage which followed. Now Theresa May is willing to accept a deal
that imprisons us by the very people we liberated from the Germans. Why are the
EU’s negotiators so anxious to punish us who seek freedom when we helped them in
their time of need? Have they forgotten that we sent food and lost many people
and suffered much damage so that they might be free?
Recently we have gone through a shared reflection on the First World
War. Yet as the print on the so called “Brexit Agreement” dries, another period
of domination by the EU looms large against the British. How can Theresa May be
so blind and so arrogant to allow the EU to inflict this upon those of us who
went through so much when we were young.
A war child now 85 years old.
