Remainers should respect their fellow voters and accept Brexit
SIR – Simon Heffer (Comment, April 1) is right: Remainers need to get over the fact that they lost the referendum.
Despite the arch Europhiles playing every card in the pack to thwart the result, a majority – as shown in recent polls – remains in favour of Brexit.
So desperate have the likes of Tony Blair and Nick Clegg become that, every time their latest gloomy forecast is proved false, another excuse for a second referendum raises its head.
It is insulting for these so-called elites to imply that Leavers did not understand what they were voting for. The majority voted to leave in order to regain our sovereignty, to make our own laws in Parliament and to control our borders. It’s as simple as that.
To adopt the Norway option, as suggested by the Commons Brexit Select Committee, would be the worst possible outcome, meaning we would continue to pay billions into the EU with no say over how the money was used and no control of our borders. David Morgan
Shrewsbury SIR – The Brexit decision is one that has the potential to affect life in this country for many years to come.
True, the public was given a simple choice, but the consequences are far from simple. Our laws, industry, commerce and finance are integrated with the EU. Taking Britain out is not like taking an apple from a tree: it is like separating Siamese twins.
We Remainers who do not accept that we should leave are not prepared to roll over and give way to a worse future. There will be increasing pressure from us to make sure either that Britain does not leave the EU or that the deal reached is as good as staying. And we will insist that Parliament takes the decision and can demonstrate that it is doing the right thing for Britain as a whole, rather than simply bowing to public opinion. Ross Charlton
Oxted, Surrey
SIR – The most specious argument favoured by Remainers is that, once we have left the EU, we will have no influence over decision-making.
The fact is that we have never had any influence in Brussels. If we had, the EU would not be the shambolic organisation it now is, and we would not have taken the drastic step of calling time on our membership. Robert Readman
Bournemouth, Dorset
SIR – I recently received my tax code for 2018-19. It included a breakdown of Government expenditure.
In the next financial year, 24.4 per cent will be on welfare, and 20.5 per cent on health. Our contribution to the EU budget will be only 0.7 per cent. Yet the Government appears to be spending most of its time on Brexit.
It is time we recognised the foolishness of the present situation and had a second referendum, which I believe would reverse the decision taken in 2016 and allow us to concentrate on more important matters. R I Robinson
Wigan, Lancashire