EU collapse will silence Remain

While, in a free country, Peter Brook and his friends are entitled to their opinions (letters, Dec 3), they display a breathtaking contempt for that very freedom.

In the first place the supporters of Brexit were animated by a desire to regain control of our own affairs, and not to see our democracy subverted by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, who are effectively accountable to no one, and whose diktats were imposed upon us without any sort of meaningful input from our elected representatives in Westminster. The European Parliament is merely a talking shop, and a fig-leaf to cover the essentially dictatorial nature of the EU.

Secondly the 2016 referendum was the largest single democratic vote in our history but Mr Brook is arrogant enough to discount the result, declaring that it can be stopped or suspended. By what right does he believe that his personal opinion should be given more weight than the more than 17 million people who voted to leave the EU?

His comment that “Nobody voted for the toxic combination of corona crisis plus Brexit disaster”, is absurd. The coronavirus was not even a cloud on the horizon when the vote took place, while Brexit is not a disaster but is the salvation of this country, allowing us to turn back to the path we should never have left of being a sovereign, independent and democratic nation. The vote was not about economics but about who governs Britain.

One wonders whether Remainers will ever accept the will of the electorate, or if we must wait until the inevitable collapse of the EU to be free of their constant harping.

Colin Bullen