Don’t call us fools, Sir John

I take exception to John Major’s implication last week that those of us who voted to leave the corrupt, unaffordable, undemocratic EU are uninformed fools. I run a multi-million-pound group of businesses and made my wealth on my own initiative and by risking my own money. I have dealt with international trade and the EU, navigating its antienterprise restraints. So don’t tell me I don’t understand the situation. Major and Blair should be in a museum. Michael Cole, Stoke-on-Trent It is not ‘malignant hate’, Sir John – it is the fact that no one in the UK had a vote on the position of the EU as it is today in 1973 or 1975 or 1992, let alone its future under the 28 unelected EU presidents. T Proctor, Aberdeenshire