Sure Brexit motives

SIR – Anthony Taylor (Letters, March 5) seems to have forgotten the claims made by the Remain side of the referendum campaign – “If we leave there will have to be an emergency budget”; “It will cost every family an extra £4,300”; “World war”.

I for one knew exactly why I voted to leave – to regain our sovereignty, our democracy and the ability to govern ourselves. David Samuel-Camps Eastleigh, Hampshire SIR – It is galling for us anti-EU democrats to be told over and over again, in the same dogmatic tones, that “those who voted to leave the EU did not fully understood what they were voting for”.

Curiously, Brexiteers don’t as a rule retaliate by pointing out that the bulk of Remain voters didn’t have a clue as to what, positively, they were voting for, other than a hazy idea of what they believed to be the status quo.

Another gambit of recalcitrant Europhiles is to call for a second referendum on the final terms for leaving the EU. This is an odd demand from those who repeatedly argued that EU referendums pose questions far too difficult for ordinary citizens to grasp.

After all, if we were too dense to understand the simple question “Who governs Britain?” how on earth are we to decide between complex economic and legal arguments to be deployed for and against the exit terms?

As the historian AJP Taylor( himself a pioneer “anti-European”) once remarked: “The people judge soundly on great issues. They cannot be expected to determine tactics.” Dr Martin R Maloney London N3