98 per cent say NO to EU deal: Forget talks with Brussels and quit NOW, urges new poll

A NEW Daily Express online poll has revealed that 98 per cent of respondents — 3,548 people — want the historic Brexit vote to be enacted now instead of Britain being embroiled in months or years of talks with Brussels bureaucrats.

It comes amid alarm over comments by Theresa May to Tory MEPs saying that  there could be "months of negotiations" before Article 50 is triggered to even start freeing Britain from Brussels rule.

And last night it was clear that those who want to harm Britain have made underlined that they intend to use any delay in leaving the EU to inflict damage on the country.

European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker said that free trade could not happen without free movement while separatist Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon made a speech “blackmailing” the rest of the UK into abandoning Brexit or risk a second independence referendum.

Former Tory cabinet minister John Redwood has led a cross party group of MPs which has come up with a plan to get Britain out of the EU “in just a matter of weeks”.

The simple solution, also backed by Labour Leave, would be to trigger article 50 by repealing the 1972 European Communities Act and then informing the EU that the UK is no longer a member but intends to trade tariff free.

If the EU then decides to impose tariffs then Britain would respond but because the UK has a trade deficit with the EU of  almost £24 billion a trade war would be more damaging to European countries especially Germany which could lose its biggest car market.

He said: “The poll is great news, well done to the Daily Express.”

The poll is great news, well done to the Daily Express

Tory cabinet minister John Redwood
He said: “Too many people in government and the professions seem to think the UK is a weak petitioner which has to be very careful in case we are expelled from the single market.

“The facts are very different. Getting our contributions back, deciding our own laws  and having our own migration policy were the three biggest points of the Leave campaign. These are all non negotiable. We should just get on and do them.”

“If people read Article 50 they would find it expressly says we can withdraw using our own constitutional procedures, which means in our case an Act of Parliament. And that can be done in just a matter of weeks.”

New Brexit Secretary David Davis has suggested that Article 50 could be triggered early in 2017 and Britain could be out by the end of 2018.

A Downing Street spokeswoman insisted that the time taken was about getting Britain the best deal.

She said: "We have been very clear that Brexit means brexit — and we are going to make a success of it.

“That means we are already making progress in preparations to leave the EU, and are committed to getting the best deal possible for the whole of the UK".

But amid concerns over unnecessary delays, Mrs May told MEPs that it could “take months” before the process begins properly.

The Tory leader in the European Parliament Syed Kamall said: "We were starting to talk about the different areas of negotiations, not coming to any conclusions yet.

“The British government needs to discuss its red lines across all departments. At the same time in Brussels they haven't decided what their red lines will be in any negotiations."

A senior Tory MEP told the Express that the meeting was “positive and united” and Mrs May had “convinced us she really wants Brexit”.

He also said she had made it clear that “ending free movement is a red line” but concerningly leaving the single market was “a grey area”.

The comments seemed to play into the hands of eurocrats led by Mr Juncker who want to force Britain to keep free movement.

Speaking to French TV channel France 2, Mr Juncker denied he was taking a "hard line" on the UK.

"It's not a hard line, it's common sense," he told the Telematin programme. "It reflects the philosophy of the European project itself."

Meanwhile SNP First Minister Ms Sturgeon provoked claims that she is trying to “blackmail” the UK Government into ignoring the democratic will of the British people after making a speech threatening a second independence referendum if Brexit happens.

In a speech at a Scottish thinktank, the SNP First Minister claimed independence could offer Scots “greatest certainty” as she revealed her demands for keeping the country’s links with the EU.

The threat of trying to trigger another referendum less than two years after Scots overwhelmingly rejected independence despite a promise at the time by Ms Sturgeon that it was a “once in a generation event”.

And last night, Ukip Scottish leader David Coburn accused her of attempting “constitutional blackmail” to overturn the democratic will of the British people in the historic EU referendum vote.

Ms Sturgeon’s threat follows four humiliating slap downs last week over her plans to allow Scotland to have its own deal with the EU or veto Brexit from European Parliament President Martin Schulz, Mrs May, Attorney General Jeremy Wright and Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist First Minister Arlene Foster.

Yesterday Mrs May met Mrs Foster in Belfast to provide reassurances that brexit would not create a hard border with the Republic of Ireland.

"Nobody wants to return to the borders of the past," Mrs May said.