Young politicians do not know anything

ALTHOUGH I’m a Tory, I can’t really fault CN Westerman’s opinions concerning our current PM (“Can we believe the PM on anything?”, June 24).

However, my concern is not that the PM has proved himself untrustworthy but that the whole of the parliamentary congregation has managed to reduce itself to a body of young professional politicians who essentially know nothing about anything except themselves and their ambitions, regardless of their party colours.

As a country, we do not appear to be able to conjure a Statesman from the ranks worthy of such a title. But there again, I suspect that anyone with the correct qualifications for such a role would automatically be disqualified by those ferociously determined to satisfy their own needs first.

But CN Westerman’s comments about Brexit are entirely incorrect. Fourteen million British adults did NOT HATE the advantages of co-operating with twenty-seven other countries: they loved it. Until of course the EU went too far along federal pathways.

A totally crazy scheme like a single currency across nations of different languages, different lifestyles, completely different types of economies, different geographies, different climates, different traditions, different religions. The removal, virtually overnight, of the ability of a country to be able to control its own unique economy. For what? To make it easier for accountants? To create political and economic dominance for the rich countries at the expense of the other twenty-five? To destroy Greece?

So no, CN Westerman, some Brits saw the writing on the wall and realised they didn’t want to be a part of the ‘People Soup’ of Europe that Brussels was, and still is, trying to create. Without that unnecessary federal thrust, the UK would still be a part of the EU that it happily signed up for.

However, I refer you to your own last paragraph where you state: “These intellectual giants, who wish to know nothing beyond their prejudices, cannot grasp that all people tempted to tell lies must often find it very difficult to comprehend what is the truth on any topic.” Just so.

Jeff Bishop, Willington