Post Brexit

Sir: Further to “Independence Day” (Autumn 2016), why are some people determined to talk our country down into another recession? There is absolutely no reason to do so. Now that we are at long last out of the European Union, we have the opportunity to rebuild our shattered industry and get back out into the big wide world where we used to be. The future for our country is bright. There is no excuse for the doom-mongers running us down. — S. SINCLAIR, STOKE-ON-TRENT, STAFFORDSHIRE.

Sir: The Referendum result was a victory for those whom the politicians have patronised as hard-working families but whose views they treated with disdain. This was a victory for ordinary people and the working class. The overpaid and selfish metropolitan elites, with their celebrity groupies and those abroad, with whom they have always had more in common than with their fellow countrymen, have been defeated and they don’t like it, or even believe it.

Many of those who voted to remain in the EU are behaving like spoilt children who, when they cannot get their own way, throw a tantrum and shout about it not being fair, although it is perhaps not surprising that anyone who supports the undemocratic rule of Brussels bureaucrats should have only contempt for the democratic decision of the British people. It is time the supporters of the failed Remain campaign grew up, accepted that the people have spoken and began to work for the success which awaits our country as we, once again, become an independent, sovereign nation, looking out to the wider world, not obsessed with the declining and doomed European Union.

As Churchill himself would say: “Advance Britannia!” —

COLIN BULLEN, TONBRIDGE, KENT.

Sir: I am a long-time subscriber to both This England and Evergreen and have invariably agreed wholeheartedly with everything you have published regarding the European Union.

However, on this occasion, I feel that you have been less than gracious by omitting any reference to Nigel Farage in “Independence Day” (Autumn 2016). I realise that he is not a universally popular figure, but without him we would not have had the Referendum and its glorious result. — WILBERT

DAVIES, HOLT, NORFOLK.