Trump has a mandate

In the past year, Donald Trump has been elevated to the US presidency, and Nigel Farage was triumphant in the UK’s Brexit referendum, as was Boris Johnson, yet these three winners are portrayed as the “enemies” of the people, regardless of the fact that their victories were conducted through the ballot box.

These men are considered really “dangerous” despite their democratic mandate, and the message is that the gloves are off insofar as the screeching opposition is concerned.

There are a myriad of groups and ex-politicians, along with multimillionaire actors and play-actors, who are demanding that the democratic decisions of the citizens are dumped and everyone goes back to as we were.

Their childish aims are doomed to abject failure.

Here, we have calls for Enda Kenny to remain as Taoiseach because his “vast experience” in EU matters will be vital in the Brexit negotiations. What involvement – what negotiations?

He won’t be consulted in any way as far as Britain and the EU are concerned, no matter how many talking shops Mr Kenny ‘masterminds’ on his ignored sideline. Robert Sullivan Bantry, Co Cork