Remain’s scare stories were all lies

REGARDING your question “what do you think, have driving standards worsened? Yes of course they have, simply because they have been allowed to by the police. Has anyone tried to speak to a police officer at Wiltshire Police HQ? Make yourself a coffee and read a good book as you settle in for a nice rest while you wait, then when it’s answered don’t accept ‘we will get someone to call you back’...because it never happens.

Yet that’s not really what stirred my interest reading the letters page on Thursday. No, I read the letter ‘PM’s only talent is self-deception’ which I agree with, and then much to my wry amusement the letter descended into a rant about Brexit. Some people just don’t know when to let go. It’s not far short of the sixth anniversary of the Brexit referendum, yet we still have people bitterly disputing the Leave victory.

It’s interesting that the letter writer attempts to say that Boris Johnson led the Leave campaign. Of course he didn’t, he led only the London Leave campaign, he was too lazy to extend himself much anywhere else and he and his cohorts in London actually lost the London vote.

It was Nigel Farage who actually led the largest campaign, but not even he will claim he led the various Labour and Tory Leave campaigns but he was the main man. We didn’t need lies about spending on the sides of London buses to aid our cause; indeed they were a hindrance.

There were far more lies told by the Remain campaign than the

Leave campaign. Cameron and Osborne claiming there would have to be an immediate emergency budget, that the pound would become a mickey mouse currency, that house prices would tumble and unemployment would grow to three million, none of which happened. Jamie Dimon forcing his employees to line up on a beach along with a gurning George Osborne, telling us they would all lose their jobs as he relocated to France – of course, he never did! The Nissan boss telling anyone who would listen that he