KEITH TAYLOR, Green South East MEP, writes in The Argus that Theresa May marches us British lemmings to the white cliffs of England to meet our Brexit doom.

That she has not a mandate to take us there on a slim majority, although it was the biggest turnout that an election had been recorded.

When a Tory leader steps down, a new leader is appointed by their peers so she elected.

A bit different from the Labour party, which gets voted in by the leftist rabble rousers and union fat cats.

But has she a mandate?

The public voted for Brexit by a majority, more than most MPs who are elected on and on smaller turnouts.

That result gave her the mandate to take us out of the EU.

But what led us there in the first place?

MEPs who had no effect on how Europe treated us. Human rights courts that slapped us in the face over and over again, subsidies given out to France and Spain like toffees.

Fishing rules handed out to France and Spain and denied to us. Farmers told what they could farm and paid subsidies so that the farmers were kept in control by Europe.

Buying vegetables from Europe that are kept chilled, that as soon as you buy them in a few days are going rotten.

A population explosion that ended in hospitals overworked, schools over prescribed, lack of housing, high cost of rents and the poor being left behind while politicians scored cheap points, just as Taylor and Ian Chisnall are doing.

Ian Chisnall asked what George Bridges meant when he spoke in the House of Lords about stakeholders.

Let me inform him what he meant. England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Gibraltar and all our citizens who are living and working abroad. But like many of our politicians he suffers from selective hearing.

As I have said many times before it is about time our politicians started to look at the real issues that affect the poorest of society, those that do go to work and still find it’s a struggle to live on the meagre wages they are given.

The spiralling cost you politician place on them.

Hard Brexit will be determined by the stance that the EU adopts and what it demands, but not by what we demand.

Yet the EU has more to lose than us, the difference in what we pay them and the trade we do with he EU is a deficit of about one billion a week. Do you honestly believe that a deal cannot be struck to suit both parties? Would you want David Davies to be meek and mild with his negotiations? Wake up man and be sensible for once.

Spencer Carvil, Egginton Road, Brighton