Time is ticking on Brexit big issues

MY letter about the regrets our children’s children may have about leaving the EU (“Leaving set to be a cause of regret”, Jan 31) prompted a reply from Lee Knowles (“How we become more ‘right’ as we age”, Feb 6).

Except he didn’t reply to the substantive point of the letter, which was, people voted for Brexit expecting diametrically opposed outcomes, and thus were going to be disappointed.

Instead, like many Brexit supporters, he prefers to shoot the messenger, rather than hear the message. I’m well aware that as people age they get more settled and conservative in their views, but that wasn’t the point of my letter.

I fully accept that, yes, I’m going to die at some point, as will my children, and yes, I’m comfortable with that knowledge. But that doesn’t mean society and its views don’t change and progress.

Perhaps some hanker for a past when women only stayed at home or when our sexuality was a matter for the police, not ourselves.

However, I look forward and embrace change and different cultures, and I’m neither a teenage whippersnapper, nor middle-aged.

So I hope informed readers can explain the contradictory views of Brexit supporters, the real solution to trade across the Irish border, how just-in-time manufacturing can work with the recent announcement about checks at the Channel ports. These points, and many others, are the real issues ever closer to which the hands of time are ticking.

Richard Butler, Derby