‘THE People’s Vote’ is surging, while Brexit is crumbling – and look who’s bringing it down. Not ‘Remainers’, but devoted ‘Brexiteers’, appalled by the fraud and duplicity of the campaign they once supported.

The EU referendum asked a simple binary question on the most complex political issue we’ve ever faced – so complex that our own government has failed to grasp it – and put it to the people who understood it even less. No plan, no impact studies or assessments were provided to inform our decision.

All information that did not parrot the Brexit mantra was trashed as ‘Project Fear’.

We now know it was ‘Project Truth’, and the people were victims of the biggest scam in recent political history, endorsed and perpetrated by leading politicians.

Both Labour and Conservatives are denying us our right to an honest referendum, believing the sacrifice of justice and democracy is a price worth paying for power.

The ‘Leave Campaign’ was an insult to democracy and a moral disgrace. Allegations of blackmail go dangerously close to Number 10, while a criminal prima facie case of financial illegality rocks the campaign’s foundations.

Three whistle-blowers have spoken out. Cambridge Analytica employee and ‘Leave’ supporter Chris Wylie said starkly: “The referendum was a fraud.”

Shahmir Sanni (‘Vote Leave’ volunteer) stated: “I know that ‘Vote Leave’ cheated; that people had been lied to and that the referendum wasn’t legitimate …”

But still the iron fist of Brexit brooks no dissent, even though the edifice on which it stands depends on corruption and keeping the public in the dark. We have all been betrayed.

The Brexit that ‘Leavers’ will get is not what they voted for or were promised.

We will become a vassal state paying huge costs, but with no control over the rules we will be forced to obey. Alternatively, we will jump off the cliff edge and suffer the crippling economic consequences.

In both scenarios we will be poorer, weaker and lose our standing in the world.

May is a hapless tool of the far right. There is not a single fascist party or organisation that is not wholeheartedly behind Brexit and the collapse of the EU – serving Trump’s and Putin’s agenda.

Brexit is the antithesis of patriotism. It cannot stand under these circumstances: we must not be cowed into submission by conmen and extremists. A second referendum with an accepted, legitimate outcome is paramount.

The world must see that we are still capable of real British patriotism and justice.

Let’s tell this Government and the Opposition that if Brexit was won by cheating, it shouldn’t have won at all.

Jennifer Godschall Johnson. Full address supplied.