Whimsical fishing for Brexit optimism

D.R. Cooper’s latest contribution to the ongoing Brexit debate (Viewpoint, December 16) is the usual combination of truths and smile-inducing whimsy.

Yes, Leave won the 2016 referendum by a small margin, supporting propositions which have long since been established as lies, and bolstered by the current Prime Minister, for whom telling the truth is as unnatural as missing out on an alcohol-fuelled party during lockdown.

To suggest, though, that the eight per cent rump of the electorate who think that Brexit is going well are the only people who have not succumbed to a ‘large scale anti-Brexit propaganda campaign’ is denied by former supporters like fishers and farmers, and even by D.R. Cooper, who spends as much time complaining about the terms of withdrawal as extolling the dewy-eyed wonders the UK was supposed to enjoy.

The conclusion is that the emotional argument for Brexit, which was genuine propaganda promoted by the majority of the billionaire-owned national news media outfits, has now been trumped by the cold realisation that the advantages of membership, now lost, were the de facto truth.

What is even more frustrating for patriotic Remainers is that as new rules begin to apply, negotiated by this charlatan bunch of schemers, things will only get worse.

Happy New Year?

JAMES AIDAN Sutton Road

Cookham