LETTERS

Not Best for Britain

DeSPITe his admission that the eU faces an existential crisis, George Soros wants the referendum result to be reversed and is spending £6 million to bankroll a campaign called Best for Britain.

has this billionaire only connected himself to Britain to make as much money as he can out of us?

his condescension and arrogance demonstrate the kind of attitude held by those who presume to tell us that they know best — which was one of the factors that led to the Brexit referendum.

British people made their decision two years ago and will not take kindly to being told that, because it was done without the oversight and benefit of Mr Soros’s all- seeing wisdom, it doesn’t count.

PHILIP J. ASHE, Leeds. IT IS ironic that George Soros is bankrolling the Best for Britain campaign, given that he acknowledges the eU is a project that threatens most of its members.

his sole reason for wanting to reverse the will of the majority of the British electorate is to save this failing project. Is this really Best for Britain?

BILL PATERSON, Yeovil, Somerset. IF GeORGe Soros’s heart is in the UK, why doesn’t he donate his £6 million to the NhS instead of trying to alter the democratic result of the referendum?

F. GOODWIN, Lutterworth, Leics.

Re-run Scots vote too!

TheRe should be a second Scottish independence referendum. however, this time only the english would be allowed to vote. The Scots would thus have independence faster than Nicola Sturgeon could imagine.

The monies thereby accruing to the english taxpayer could be used to establish a hard border between the two countries. This would be essential in order to prevent the hordes of economic migrants — impoverished, unemployed Scots — fleeing south.

The privileged, out-of-touch, supercilious, ermine-wearing house of Lords and the anti- democratic Remoaners could be re-settled north of the border, where they can be miserable in their non-independent enclave ruled by a sclerotic, unelected, european dictatorship.

The rest of us can then just get on with Brexit. MIKE RUTTER, Kingswinford, W. Mids.

Gunning for trouble

I AM disgusted at Raheem Sterling’s tattoo of a gun on his leg. Worse still, the Football Association is backing his inclusion in the england squad for the World Cup.

england once sent out gentlemen such as Jimmy Armfield and Bobby Charlton as its football ambassadors. Now it appears to be helping to glamorise ‘gangsta’ violence. Claims that the tattoo is in honour of Sterling’s father, who was shot dead, are disingenuous. everyone knows it will be seen as cool by impressionable young men.

he plays in Manchester, a city that has gone to great effort to end gun crime and where there is a statue of an anti-gun campaigner made out of melted down shotguns.

ED GLINERT, Stretford, Gtr Manchester. STeRLING should be told that if he wants to play for england, he will have to pull his socks up.

BILLY GATES, Rainham, Essex. FOOTBALLeRS should forget tattoos and seek transfers instead. VINCENT HEFTER, Richmond, Surrey.

Peer pressure

IF The Lord Speaker Lord Fowler wishes to reduce the size of the house, I suggest all life peers should retire for the good of the country.

Then we should restore an independent hereditary peerage whose views are tempered by life experiences and not because they joined a political party at university, lost an election and were retired by their party or are a TV celebrity.

There should be one peer for each county plus a cross- bench star chamber of experts to advise them. This would slim down the house from 785 to just 80 peers.

ROGER ROUND, Heston, Middlesex.

A very real scandal

I AGRee with the Mail’s TV critic Christopher Stevens that the acting in A Very english Scandal is excellent. But writer Russell T.

Davies has turned a nasty true-life story into a Carry On-style crime caper.

It was lucky Norman Scott did not lose his life. I doubt if he or any of the families of those depicted in this TV series are finding it funny. RICHARD SIROT,

Deal, Kent. HUGH GRANT is superb as Jeremy Thorpe. This drama captures the serious side of the story without neglecting the farcical black comedy of the situation.

MAX NOTTINGHAM, Lincoln.

Crowning moment

LIKE Vernon Moore, who celebrated the Coronation by creating a huge illuminated crown on an island in Plymouth Sound (Letters), I have strong memories of that day 65 years ago.

My family, living near Belfast, were all excited because my father had bought a black-andwhite TV. I didn’t know anyone else who had such a luxury.

We were each allowed to invite a friend to see this marvel while drinking Club Orange from the bottle and eating Smith’s crisps with a twist of salt in blue paper!

We gathered excitedly round, the tiny TV, our eager faces staring at a screen that appeared to be broadcasting a snowstorm. And then my day was ruined. The sitting room door opened to reveal that my parents had invited my school headmistress to enjoy the occasion. Yes, a day I will never forget!

GAY FRENCH, Port Erin, Isle of Man.