Hang your head in shame, Harry Bell

I know I am not alone among your readers in being appalled by Harry Bell’s column last week attacking Cllr Alan Baldock over his remarks regarding the killing of Jo Cox MP (Harry Bell, Kentish Gazette, June 30).

This opportunistic and juvenile attack showed serious disrespect for Mrs Cox and her family and for all those deeply affected by her tragic death.

It was hubris in the extreme, literally taking pleasure in the humiliation of the victim, and the writer of it should hang his head in shame and this paper should issue an apology.

The scoffer jokes at spelling mistakes when he doesn’t even appear to know the difference between a statute and a statue.

More worryingly, in effect he diminishes the reality of Mrs Cox’s murder. I trust he makes no further fun of those standing up against xenophobia and racism. Mike Bland Nunnery Green, Canterbury

Simon Pettman’s assertion that Vote Leave has said we must join the single market is totally incorrect (Now We’ve Made Our Choice..., Letters and Opinion, Kentish Gazette, June 30).

Only Daniel Hannan declared this to be the case when he was interviewed by a shocked and stunned Evan Davis, who interviewed him on Newsnight on June 24.

No other Leave campaigner has said any such thing.

Leave voted unanimously to leave the single market and pursue our own trade agreements.

Michael Gove stated so unequivocally, as did Andrea Leadsom.

Before the referendum, Prime Minister David Cameron emphatically said that the Norway option was no good for Britain.

Theresa May, Mr Cameron and even John Mcdonnell and other unlikely bedfellows have all said ‘out is out’.

If Mrs May becomes the next Prime Minister, she is committed to ensuring that Brexiters will conduct the negotiations and terms of Brexit, as is only right and proper.

Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands are desperate that trading ties with Britain should not be dismantled and are therefore willing to strike deals that benefit the UK.

They are stressing, along with other EU countries, that there should be no red lines.

The notion that our negotiators will choose to shackle ourselves once again to a shambolic undemocratic dictatorship, paying huge sums of money to the club and agreeing to accept EU laws, is quite frankly preposterous. The superstate dream is dead. Mike Bull Spire Avenue, Whitstable

As well as the vote to leave the EU being sensible, reasonable, rational and logical, it was also worth it to see the likes of Will Self interviewed in the aftermath incandescent with rage, anger and righteous indignation.

The sheer arrogance of his type of smug, complacent and self-anointed character is breathtaking.

For once, us prols have refused to be told what to think, do and say by the metropolitan elite, leftie-liberal opinion formers.

We don’t all take our views of life undiluted straight from The Guardian.

It has been said from a certain section of the Leave camp that we should reach out to Remainers as part of the healing process.

Oh dear. So sorry if their sensibilities were offended by that inconvenient thing, democracy.

No doubt Remainers would have thought it right and proper had the vote gone their way.

We’ve had our vote. Never mind spurious online petitions or possible dodgy manoeuvres in Parliament. Any attempt to circumvent the result will lead to trouble.

There are certain groups in this country who are ready to go to war. That is not an idle threat. That is fact.

Farage, no matter what you think of him, is right on the money when he says “If people see that voting doesn’t change things, the next step is violence”.

Ending up with trouble on the streets is not a price worth paying to pacify the liberal left.

The boil has been lanced, but don’t let anyone underestimate the level of anger and frustration that still exists.

The legitimate views, concerns and fears of the majority of the British people have been ignored and marginalised for too long.

The EU has played the major part in that, while most of Westminster was compliant.

It goes right back to the founding principles of the EU that the people couldn’t be trusted and unelected bureaucrats should take the lead in determining the direction of Europe.

That goes against all the political history and heritage of Britain. It was always going to come to a head. If it hadn’t, the conflict would have rumbled on until trouble ensued

Now it has come to a head we have to get on with it. This is not the end, it is just the beginning.

The hard work starts now. So everyone buckle up and get ready to rumble. Robert Cambridge Pier Avenue, Whitstable

After the referendum, political debate has centred on party leadership, the timing of Article 50 and the possibility of an early general election.

All of this without a plan for Britain’s future relationship with the EU.

While we await the arrival of a new Prime Minister and the direction he or she will take us, there is one immediate issue the government must resolve.

So far only limited assurances have been made by government to EU citizens who already live and work here – assurances that their status will not

Alan Baldock and Jo Cox