Result is the wrong one

Sir, – Dr Wardrop , (Letters, September 14), in countering the non-brexiteers, believes that “most things have not changed”.

He states that this includes “the EU’S unelected, greedy bureaucrats” and “Theresa May’s bungling”.

How right he is! However, greedy bureaucrats and bunglers can be found in all governments.

His comparison of democracy to a horse race is a fair one in that both are gambles in which knowledge of the details involved go a long way to producing the best result.

Such knowledge was not available to the referendum voters so it is also fair to say that the result was not genuinely democratic, depending, of course, on your favourite democratic flavour of the many available.

But, democratic or not, the result is the wrong one if we consider the bigger picture.

We should consider the mess previous politicians have made that resulted in two unnecessary world wars that could have been prevented had our “statesmen” the will to do so.

Our Brexiteers are not consciously planning for another war but are unconsciously putting into place a tiny plank of dissension that could eventually lead to conflict.

For our children’s sake we need to form the world, not just Scotland, in such a way that wars become obsolete as a solution to our problems.

A small step in that direction would be to remain in the UK and the EU and work within these organisations to get the results we need.