IT IS difficult to know where to start with Clif Moreton’s extraordinary rant (Letters, Nov 24).

In support of “democracy” he appears to advocate by-passing an elected parliament and the rule of law, and threatens politically motivated violence (often known as terrorism) if he doesn’t get his way.

When we have left the EU he will find that this country is even more at the mercy of the globalised world that he decries (I share his concern about globalisation).

He might also note that the “privileged elite” to which he is so hostile includes, for instance, Messrs. Farage, Johnson, and Gove who have helped to bring us to this point, not to mention Mr Trump in America.

And how short memories can be!

This summer’s campaign concentrated very firmly on the arrogant, wish-fulfilment fantasy that we could remain in the single market while picking which of its rules we would accept.

So-called “hard Brexit” scarcely figured in the leavers’ campaign, and now Mr Moreton claims, with the faulty recollection of some of the tabloids, that the reverse was “very clear”.

It was not.

Meanwhile, let’s remember that the leavers have been moaning and whinging for over forty years after a referendum that confirmed membership of the EEC by a very big majority (not the tiny margin of this vote) and that the campaign then was a portrait of honesty compared to this time round.

And please do not come back with the old lie, now repeated in (mostly) good faith by people too young to know, to old to remember clearly, or who just didn’t pay attention at the time, that we didn’t understand the long-term implications of what we were voting for then.

We did: it was laid out very clearly. A total of 48% of us thought that leaving the EU will prove a bad move.

A lot of us still do.

We shall continue to say so.

That’s democracy. Get used to it.

BARRY TEMPEST

Romulus Close Dorchester