Stick to nature writing Jim

Sir, - Jim Crumley’s extreme pessimism about Brexit is grotesquely distorted, regarding it as the worst policy in Europe since the Second World War.

He evidently expects us in the UK to end cultural exchanges with our continental counterparts, break off friendly relations and look only inwards, as little Englanders, or self-obsessed Britons.

Indeed, he seems to regard the notion of Britain as a dying concept, being supplanted by rebellious nationalism in Celtic enclaves.

Despite the remarkable post-EU referendum growing British prosperity, he has not moved on economically from the pre-referendum project fear which proved a spectacular failure, resulting in the resignation of its chief proponent, David Cameron, as the Leave vote triumphed, based on the largest vote ever recorded for anything in the UK.

Far from encouraging animosity towards or among our Continental friends, political anti-EU feeling in Europe surely represents reaction against the political elite and the unelected, bossy, interfering EU officials, aiming to carry “the project” inexorably towards a united states of Europe.

Jim Crumley’s view will not further his reputation as a first-class writer on the natural world, described in the Los Angeles Times as the best reporter in Britain. Maybe he should stick to such topics in the future. (Dr) Charles Wardrop. 111 Viewlands Road West, Perth.