Remainers must drop the idea that Brexiteers were all deceived

SIR – I am a commercial offshore helicopter captain, my wife is a surgeon, my mother-in-law is a previous president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and my closest friend is a commercial director of a FTSE 100 company. All of us voted for Brexit. We understood the question asked of us (it wasn’t difficult), and we understand the implications of leaving.

It may disappoint Tony Blair, Tim Farron and other Remainers, but we are educated people and believe in the benefits of leaving the EU. We believe in our country and our right to sovereignty – and we believe that leaving means leaving.

We don’t need asking again, because we will give exactly the same answer. Matthew Clifford Norwich SIR – The architects of the European project tried for decades to hide its true direction of travel – to create a large political bloc in Europe.

All the carefully scripted propaganda – to which we are still being subjected – about economics, trade and saving Europe from war is almost entirely put about by those who have narrow, vested interests that do not coincide with the national interest. Ian Johnson Chelford, Cheshire SIR – I am tired of being labelled a “Remoaner” because I want the best possible future for my country following Brexit.

Perhaps we could label those who want Britain to leave the single market and customs union as “Suicide Brexiteers”. They are demanding a total disengagement from Europe, whatever the cost to Britain. Mike Sufrin Dundee SIR – I do not share Christopher Booker’s concerns about the mountains of detail to be considered in Brexit (Review, November 20).

As someone who has managed the acquisition of businesses and completed start-ups, I know that the minutiae cannot and need not be dealt with before the event.

These are very minor operations compared with Brexit – but the principle that everything must be tackled beforehand is erroneous.

Most things can be managed later. Some will take time; others can be completed quickly. A T Brookes Charlwood, Surrey SIR – Derek Rye (Letters, November 20), a British citizen living abroad, complains that he was denied the right to vote in the EU referendum.

If he is that interested in the governance of Britain, perhaps he should reside here.

I am fed up with those who live abroad but feel it is their right to vote on how this country is run. They chose to live elsewhere, and cannot have their cake and eat it. Pauline Mead Watford, Hertfordshire