I believe in sovereign right of this country and parliament

I have read with varying degrees of amusement, incredulity and disdain the letters “Shyfox” sends on a regular basis to your page, however his latest rant against Brexiteers has finally driven me to put an alternative view.

I voted for Brexit, not out of xenophobia, but quite simply because I believe in the sovereign right of this country and its parliament to determine our own future, policies, borders and legislature.

I have worked for American, German, Italian and British companies throughout my career, I lived and worked in the USA for seven years, I count among my many friends citizens of France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, USA, Mexico and Canada. I do not read the Sun, Express, Mail or Star and indeed never have done. I was not old enough to vote in the 1975 referendum, had I been I would likely have voted to stay in the Common Market, as that is what we were told we were entering into. I would not have voted for, nor would I now, the EU and its erosion of national identity and sovereignty by stealth.

Migrant workers will still be welcomed here post-Brexit, they will however be monitored and limited in their right to stay and access to benefits. So he can still have his cheap fruit and veg, if it is so important.

People will still be served in pubs and restaurants, homes will still be built (hopefully by local tradesmen taking advantage of the various apprenticeship programmes), hospitals will still provide care, though probably less burdened by the unfettered immigration we have seen since 1997 and ideally with English speaking health workers - not the case in some recent experiences of mine and my family - the NHS spent in excess of 40 million last year hiring translators. Scaremongering was the sole instrument of the Remain campaign and it is still so.

Shyfox, despite your apparent disregard for it, this country has always performed best when it has stood on its own two feet or has been threatened, as it is now almost daily by the EU unelected commissars masquerading as negotiators.

If the fifteen or so months since we voted to leave the EU has taught me anything it is that we are absolutely right to leave such a toxic, self-aggrandising, undemocratic leviathan the EU has become. If you look for an example I give you the “college of commissioners” whatever that is, along with the five presidents, whoever they are and the fact that the EU has never been audited and is accountable only to itself and a European Parliament that meets four times a month.

The only reason Blair, Cameron, Mandelsson, Clegg, Cable, Farron, Kinnock, Osborne and their traitorous ilk want to stay in is because they see the end of the gravy train and do not like it one bit, having spent a career suckling on the public teat.

Our future should be in our own hands, as it always has been, regulated by a sovereign government and a parliament accountable to the electorate, not some puppet of a public cabal drunk on its own power and importance.

And yes, I have the guts to put my own name to my opinion, rather than some ridiculous moniker. Clive Hill