WITH Westminster politics starting to look like a Game of Thrones episode, it would be easy to get caught up in the pantomime and overlook the opportunities last Thursday’s result has given us.

I was immensely proud to lead the Vote Leave/Ukip team that worked so hard across the North-East and North Yorkshire to help deliver this monumental change in British politics. We never swerved from our belief that we had the support of local people and that we were doing the right thing for our country and as the results came through in the early hours of Friday our belief was justified.

However, winning the referendum was only the first step of our journey. Many politicians locally and nationally are still of the belief that they know better, and we, the voting public, got it wrong. Their scare stories and smearing are still all over the news and their arrogance is far from diminished.

I for one will not let this go unopposed. We have a bright future outside the EU. Today big business is saying it will still invest in the UK. America has changed its tune from “back of the queue” to “special friend” almost over night and if the rest of the EU is in such turmoil at the prospect of us leaving then the ridiculous proposition of them not trading favourably with us must surely be thrown in the project fear dustbin. And George Osborne’s punishment budget has gone missing along with the man himself.

Throw in the fact that the stock market has bounced back and the fact that the euro is at the same rate it was a week ago and you start to see that all is not as dark as we were told it would be.

I will fight to make sure our MPs demand that this Government replaces every single penny of the subsidies we’ve previously needed to rely on. Whether they have the will or the skill to do that remains to be seen.

Our area can thrive in this brave new world if we grasp the opportunities but to do so we need strong leadership and our MPs must step up and be counted – our Labour MPs must become a proper opposition.

If they can’t, democracy will eventually choose leaders who will.

Steve Turner, Redcar