WELCOME to weird world where I quote, more or less, “immigrants and concrete are to blame for our ill health. But we are saved by life-improving Brexit”.

I’ve never heard such Gerald Bull in my life (‘A theory to improve the health of the UK’, Postbag, June 1).

Can you get life-improving Brexit on the National Health? If so, I’m first in the queue at A&E where, coincidently you are more likely be seen by an immigrant, or as I like to call them, a fellow human being who is there to help, cure and look after the likes of me and Mr Bull. 

Now, Brexit is an interesting idea if you want to become an isolationist, and wave your little union flag in the hope you may be noticed by the rest of the world as opposed to being a major influence in the EU guiding and influencing EU policies as a member of one of the great trading power blocks of this world.

If we are not careful we will become little nationalists pretending and believing we are brave little soles waving our Union Jack on the edge of Europe, desperately hoping someone will notice us.

Wobbly May will wobble into negotiations and if she fails to deliver what her right wing want, she will wobble out of negotiations saying “no deal is better then a bad deal” - no deal effectively shutting the door on our biggest and closest trading partner, and what happens then? Trade with the rest of the world? 

Like all small businesses, small countries will have little clout with major multinational corporations, especially if corporations smell desperation.

And guess what - you will see what it’s really like to lose sovereignty. 

And before I forget Mr Bull, cities and concrete like it or not, tended to grow more rapidly in previous centuries such as the 18th and 19th due to the migration of those from Ireland to build first our canals and then our railways and the movement of men and women working on the land to these new cities who created the manpower and wealth of the industrial revolution in great cities such as Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham. 

E LENISTON
Monkton Heathfield