You might be free to vote on the EU but not to leave

I hail from Co Cork and wish to inform readers of a lesson we learned in the Republic of Ireland from EU referenda:

You are free to vote No, but you are not free to leave.

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We tried twice in the Republic to reject EU treaties and twice we were made to vote again.

It will be no different for the United Kingdom.

Tom O’Brien, Coalisland

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