Learn or pay the price

With regard to the criticism of the Remain faction (“Politicians have failed UK”, December 9), I was reminded that, when the Bourbon dynasty was returned to France following the defeat of Napoleon, its members were accused of having “learnt nothing and forgotten nothing”, a description that seems all too relevant today.

Now that I think of it, it wasn’t too long before the Bourbons were being turned out of power again, this time permanently.

Those who learn nothing from history should beware. Peter Davey, Bournemouth