LIKE most Brexits, John Joyce (‘Get Over it and Move On’ Feb 3) attempts to distract challenges to his way of thinking by trying to reduce the personal credibility of anyone who doesn’t agree with him.

Having obliquely inferred that my mental state is questionable (whose aren’t these days with all of the turmoil?), he then goes on to say that a clear majority voted for Brexit.

This raises questions about his own state of mind since 70 per cent of us didn’t vote for it!

Adding insult to injury, he then invites me to ‘pull together’ with him!

Would he not agree that here in Dorset, immigration is actually one of the least important issues?

So, apart from an unjustifiable hatred of all things European, did he vote to leave the EU to bring us economic prosperity?

If so, where was this outcome a reasonably justified supposition?

Here we are jumping off the cliff like lemmings, with a currency so devalued that it has already wiped 25 per cent off the country’s value.

It matters little that people are spending more in the shops since it’s their savings they are spending.

Or, that the economy is up by two per cent if the bank will soon have to start raising interest rates to combat inflation.

My own feeling is that the whole movement to leave the EU was a mistaken belief that we could return in some strange way to an imagined blissful sovereignty. We might as well have had a beer and sung ‘One day over the rainbow’ for all of the reality the Brexit arguments were based on.

We now have a Prime Minister reduced to going ‘cap-in-hand’ to a powerful bully in USA and pleading for some trade weakly objecting to his favouring torture and throwing in the sweetener of a State Visit.

She then stops off on the way back in Turkey, a country with questionable democratic issues, to sell them arms of all of the products we now sell at 25 per cent discount.

Looks like desperation to me.

I think Mr Joyce’s defensiveness is a sign of his and other Brexits’ uncertainty.

If they were honest enough to admit they could have made a big mistake, there might be an outside possibility of us all doing as he suggests and working together to find a way out of the diabolical mess they got us into.

However, that takes compromise which is in somewhat shorter supply these days.

MIKE JOSLIN Dorchester

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