Dire warning

VINCe CABLe seems to forget that the ‘overwhelmingly elderly’ people who voted for Brexit were once the far- sighted young people of the seventies who voted to join the Common Market.

This was despite some of the ‘overwhelmingly elderly’ people claiming that it was all a plot to create a United states of europe with a single currency and a single parliament controlled by Germany and backed up by france, and that national borders would be erased along with national identities through mass immigration.

Oh, how we laughed at them, we young people who knew better.

GEORGE MANN, Nottingham. JUdGING by Vince Cable’s pearls of wisdom, is it not time to have a byelection in Twickenham as the electorate clearly didn’t understand who they were voting for. Mrs K. COOPER, Oldham, Lancs.