IT SEEMS Jennifer Godschall Johnson doth protest too much (Letters 20 April).

Repeatedly during the lead up to the vote on the 23 June 2016, people were warned that there would be a disastrous economic shock in the immediate aftermath of a ‘Leave’ vote.

None followed.

Indeed, unemployment, a key economic indicator and humanitarian concern, is at four per cent and falling steadily over several years.

Real wages are up.

The EU is a wasteful, corrupt and unaccountable bureaucracy.

And its political power grows. Tony Benn, with whom I would not normally agree, was proved right that the EU would one day prevent a democraticallyelected government from implementing its manifesto.

This happened recently to Greece.

Brexit supporters want sovereignty; to trade freely with Europe but not to amalgamate politically.

We want our own army and foreign policy.

Legal supremacy should return from Brussels to Westminster.

Controlled immigration is better for racial harmony than uncontrolled.

And so on.

There were legitimate arguments on both sides.

But to re-run the vote in the hope of achieving the ‘right’ outcome would strain the British people’s faith in democracy still further.

Richard Laversuch, Beales Close, Andover