Question was very clear

Peter Wood (Letters, January 4) peddles the same remainer myths that have been wheeled out and discredited previously.

He kicks off with the line that we voted to leave the EU but ‘The referendum did not decide how we should leave’ . Sorry but it did. There was no second question such as ‘OK but now how do we leave?’

All the big players on both sides of the debate repeatedly said that a vote to leave the EU was a vote to leave the single market.

David Cameron said ‘What the British public will be voting for is to leave the EU and leave the single market’ .

George Osborne echoed him: “We would be out of the single market.”

There you are the two most powerful men at the time saying leave would mean leaving the single market.

Peter tries to reduce the debate in the referendum campaign to the remainers fighting for jobs and investment while the leavers had particular concerns about migration levels.

I have two issues with this. Firstly, how does Peter know this?

It is widely accepted that the remain camp ran an appalling campaign in Sunderland and across the North East.

In the weeks of campaigning for leave I did not see anyone canvassing or delivering for remain.

How did they connect with the people or hear their views.

Secondly, I regularly campaigned with a former East German, a Bangladeshi and a Romanian.

Yes migration was an issue for the leave voters but not the only issue.

Peter then speculates that the result of the General Election was perhaps due to the people wanting a softer Brexit.

So nothing to do with an appalling national campaign and a manifesto that read like a political suicide note? I canvassed in the General Election campaign and people were mainly happy with Brexit and things in general until the manifesto was published then the whole picture changed.

The attempt to link the city returning three Labour MPs with a change in attitude to Brexit is a little desperate.

I mean, Sunderland returning Labour MPs.

The surprise would be if it didn’t.

Besides this Labour, at that time, said they would honour the referendum result.

The really sad thing about the remainers continued campaign to frustrate Brexit is not that they ignore what the people said but that they hold the people in contempt by pushing the myth that they did not know what they voted for or why.

Alan Wright