That sinking feeling
SIR – I enjoyed your item on Britain’s aircraft carriers (report, June 27).
However, I feel I should mention HMS Courageous, which was omitted from the list. An early casualty of the war, she sank on September 17 1939.
In my family we remember her because my parents got married on that day. My father always said: “I went down with the Courageous.” Lorna Almonds-windmill Monkton Combe, Somerset Brexit was an indication that this was a price worth paying. An unambiguous majority of those who voted showed that it wasn’t about money at all: they simply wanted to live in a sovereign country again.
It is disingenuous to say that people didn’t know what they were voting for and therefore the vote is invalid. The point is that people did know what it was like to be in the EU, and almost any alternative was better than that. Jane Biggs Taunton, Somerset
SIR – As Google, which has been fined £2.1billion for failing to adhere to EU competition laws, will attest, the European Commission has become a punishment mechanism.
If only its commissioners would spend as much energy creating an environment in which great companies can innovate and prosper, the EU might create national wealth rather than destroy it. John Maloney Biggar, South Lanarkshire SIR – Although I voted for Brexit, having been opposed to our membership of the EU since the time of Ted Heath, I have now concluded that we must remain as full members.
Events over the last year and the result of the general election have shown that leaving the EU will cause damage to our economic prosperity and our influence in the world.
Unpicking Eu-inspired legislation will be tantamount to changing elements of our constitution. Most countries require safeguards to ensure that important constitutional changes are supported by more than a simple majority. While it is true that a majority of those who voted in 2016 backed Brexit, the Leave vote represented only 37.4 per cent of the electorate. This means that a majority were either opposed or too indifferent to vote.
It is time that our MPS did what they are paid to do: act in the best interests of the country as a whole. This means withdrawing our Article 50 notice. Paul Laing Dereham, Norfolk