IN HER letter (20 April) Jennifer Godschall Johnson writes of a hypothetical ‘People’s Vote’.
Are we not the “people’ who voted in the Referendum?
No, we were too thick to know what we were voting for! Wrong. I did not walk to the polling station with my knuckles dragging on the ground — I knew exactly what I was doing. I was voting for a return of our national sovereignty and for democratic accountability vested in our Parliament.
Before the referendum the then Chancellor George Osborne threatened the nation with an emergency punitive budget if we voted for ‘Leave’.
Other ‘experts’ warned of half-a-million job losses immediately and a drop in house prices. Wrong. House prices continued to rise and and employment increased.
Unemployment figures are at a 43-year low.
A recent report has described ‘Project Fear’ as “a mixture of malice and ignorance, of wicked politics and trashy economics.”
We have also been threatened by those megalomaniacs in Brussels — from Monsieur Barnier to stop our airlines from landing in EU countries and by Herr Juncker that he would close thousands of our websites.
These extreme federalists are supported in their nefarious policies by Tony Blair, who has been described as “the most hated man in Britain”, and by his propagandist Alastair Campbell (he of the ‘dodgy dossier’), along with Nick Clegg, Chuka Umunna, Anna Soubry and others.
Sometimes I watch Guy Verhofstadt and listen to some of his rants in the EU Parliament on YouTube, and I am so glad that I voted ‘Leave’.
Brian Mercer, Barlows Lane, Andover.
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