Leave vote could signal the end of the EU

KARL Woodward could have used a better analogy to describe the ruffled feelings of the Remain fraternity than one of the most embarrassing and mawkish rock anthems ever recorded.

He uses the same well worn doomsday scenario that the Remain faction have churned out throughout their illstarred campaign: “A huge and massive blow to our youth”, as if we were sending the poor souls to the Nazi death camps en masse.

I cannot recall that we walked about with our backsides hanging out of our jeans prior to 1975 (except when we sewed fake patches on).

Mr Woodward is also suffering from sour grapes when he ascribes the Brexit vote to the far right.

The Leave vote would not have carried without a significant number of Labour voters opting for it in the Midlands and the North.

This only underlines the huge divide in cultural values between Labour’s traditional voting strongholds and the largely London based middle class leadership.

Immigration may well continue, but at least we now have the means to control it without the meddling jurisdiction of Brussels to contend with.

As for our social safety net collapsing, a timely history lesson will show that our welfare state managed perfectly well for the best part of 30 years before joining the EU.

We are now absolved from having to assist in bailing out the economic basket case sections of the EU such as Greece.

Above all, I consider the referendum result to be the biggest blow struck for democracy in my lifetime.

The ordinary people of Britain have helped to overturn the trough of stinking politicians’ pigswill of the European Union and I strongly believe that other erstwhile member states’ populations will clamour for withdrawal.

Current stats have some 61% of the French in favour of leaving and 49% of Germans.

I forecast that the whole rotten structure will collapse like the taxpayer funded house of cards it so clearly is. I rest my case. Dick Hayball

Burbage