Wilson’s intemperate remarks illustrate why we urgently require a second referendum on Brexit

SAMMY Wilson can always be relied on to say something stupid. That’s why we need a second referendum.

So, Sammy rides to Boris Johnson’s defence by providing even more objectionable rhetoric than that used by the Prime Minister.

Just when all sensible MPs are trying to reduce the heat of the debate, by urging removal of the wartime rhetorical descriptions such as “surrender”, “traitors” and “capitulation”, he doubles down with a description of his political opponents as “fifth columnists” (News, September 27).

How on Earth did we elect such a fool as our representative? What does it say about our politics?

Sammy maintains that his opponents are “subverting the will of the people” in opposing a no-deal Brexit. But that option has never been tested at the ballot box.

It is not known that it is the “people’s will”, while it is certainly against the national interest, according to all informed opinion.

Surely now we must have the confirmatory referendum which Jacob Rees-Mogg originally suggested (in 2016) would be needed at the end of the negotiation process to test if it is, indeed, the will of the people to proceed with the actually obtained agreement, rather than the unobtainable promises, which were originally made by the Vote Leave lobby now in power.

Such a referendum is required, rather than a General Election, since Brexit cuts across all party lines, so the European issue must be decoupled from the “Corbyn” issue.

NICK CANNING Coleraine, Co Londonderry