Half in, half out

As a Leave voter, I must admit that the Remain campaign have played a blinder.

Having pushed for a Remain voteandpaidmillionstoleaflet every house in the country, telling us that we should vote Remain, David Cameron, having lost, was succeeded by another Remainer who undertook to deliver what we voted for as a nation, which was to leave.

Sincethen,astraightforward matter of delivering Brexit – leaving the EU and being free of its control, which is what Brexit means – has been very effectively undermined. The Chequers Agreement, which keeps the UK under the cosh, is being pushed as delivering what we voted for. In fact, it is the very opposite. Half-in, halfout and being told what to do by the EU, with no say in their decisions.

In the meantime, pressure groups are pushing for a second “democratic” vote to review the first, um .... democratic vote which is currently being skilfully ignored.

So, having made a democratic decision to leave the EU, our choices are to remain with no say in EU decisions, or hold another vote to remain in the Eu,whichisfundedbywealthy individuals who object to people making a democratic decision they don’t like and which they intend to subvert.

I remember, back in the early Seventies when the United Kingdom was a democracy. When we were then comprehensibly

lied to and consequently voted to join the EEC, that was that. There was no second referendum.

However, after more than 40 years we have been well taught how things are done in Europe.

Haven’t we learned quickly?

ANDREW HN GRAY Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh

What convoluted logic your contributor Mr Bethune of Selkirk (Letters, 21 August) displays in linking Brexit and climate change, two totally unrelated issues.

He may be suffering from Brexit Anxiety Disorder, a condition recently described by Philip Corr, Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Economics at the University of London, as “suffering from chronic anxiety caused by loss of control and insecurity”.

The lengths to which the Remoaners now go in their denial of the will of the people as expressed in the Brexit referendum is truly laughable.

But coming to climate change: the best way to combat it is to reduce the number of climate changers. In other words, free universal contraception and an end to the subsidising of people for reproducing.

GEORGE MORTON

Gauss Str. 108 Stuttgart, Germany

Greece is about to exit the European Stability Mechanism after eight years of huge EU loans needed after political irresponsibility of the Brexit variety. Sadly, its living standards and public services remain far below pre-crisis levels, with little hope of improvement for decades and most of the country resembles a derelict building site.

Austerity on the scale Scotland would experience after independence has left Greek welfare available for only the most needy.

Tax rises sent many firms abroad along with half a million of its best-qualified youth. The fact is, that if I was 25 instead of 75 and had just gained my Physics

PHD there’s no way I’d stay here.

(REV DR) JOHN CAMERON

Howard Place, St Andrews