Brexiters will be viewed by history as the enemies of reason and peace

I’M SORRY if the subject is tedious to some readers but, as long as the EU quitters keep writing in with their narrow-minded, nationalist views, we remainers will keep pointing out the error of their ways. This time it’s Coltman and McWilliam (Letters, March 7).

While Andy McWilliam’s ‘us and them’ mantra is among the most tedious, he does have a point.

The twenty-first century world can indeed be characterised by a division of humanity into two camps, but not the ‘ we British’ versus ‘they, the rest’ that Andy envisages.

The battle is between the rational and the irrational, order and disorder. A small vignette illustrates the situation.

A few weeks ago I was attacked in Lyon’s main railway station by a wild man – like me, white and middleaged, but clearly either drunk, drugged or deranged.

As I brushed myself down, a lady – French, young and black – came over to check if I was all right and insisted that she accompany me to report the incident, which she found ‘shocking and unacceptable’, to the security staff. As we did so, it became clear that this was by no means an isolated incident.

The two sides of humanity exemplified here were not drawn along lines of nationality, race, sex or age, but by rationality and a sense of order.

The forces of irrationality and disorder are on the rise, whether their origins lie in drugs, greed, religion or nationalism.

I’m not saying the 52 per cent whose nationalistic leanings have pulled Britain out of the safe haven of the EU are mad (although some of them are!), but their folly puts them firmly on the wrong side of the line.

Along with Trump, le Pen, Kim Jong Un and Isis, they will be viewed by history as the enemies of reason, the enemies of peace.

Richard Guise Cradock Drive, Quorn