Letters and emails to The Voice

from Geoffrey Botterill

John Inglis calls for radical change in the world economic order (see previous Voice) and tells us that he voted for Brexit because of a democratic deficit in the EU. In doing so,  he helped usher into power an unelected Prime Minister, who has fought  to sidestep Parliament like a medieval monarch, and who failed to immediately condemn the kind of attacks on our independent judiciary previously emanating only from corrupt dictatorships. Not, I would have thought, a great step forward for democracy. Since then, we have heard the threat to turn the UK into a tax haven if the other 27 countries of the EU fail to bow to May’s demands. Not, I would have thought, a great leap forward in changing the world economic order. The answer to John’s question about what is to happen next, is for those who, like him, voted out of conviction, but have now been shown to have been deceived, to concede that they made a terrible mistake and join the “Remoaners” in the fight against this nasty and destructive tide.