NOW, here is a similar thing, because just like Mike Joslin who has a "smidgen of sympathy" with Heather Robison's missives, ("Have Your Say" November 27) I've occasionally had a "smidgen of sympathy" with Mr Joslin's ongoing Brexit type vitriol.

However, this time, yet again, Mr Joslin reminds me of those people who constantly parade about wearing a sandwich board proclaiming "The end of the world is nigh".

Everywhere you look, people like Mr Joslin are asking whether democracy as we know it is doomed.

And what is so alarming, is that so many people are willingly buying into the idea that if we leave the embrace of the EU, well, we've all had it.

Life won't be worth living.

The UK will become a third-world country. An economic basket-case.

Hitherto, it was once accepted that those who lose a democratic vote – should nonetheless abide by the result.

Unfortunately, in the case of Brexit vote, that no longer holds. We had a "People's Vote" – the outcome of which, was leave.

But not unsurprisingly, knowing Mr Joslin's habit of sometimes tweaking a fact to suit his arguments, according to this correspondent "only 36 per cent voted" to leave the EU.

Although this figure is correct, the use of it gives the impression to the gullible – mostly the Remainers, that the other well published result of 52 per cent out and 48 per cent to remain in the EU, can be discounted.

As if it was a figment of someone's over active imagination. A dream.

Basically, this seems to saying that the 2016 result was unacceptable. Simply because it was delivered by people with the wrong view.

By implication, those people who did vote out, don't even count as people. Their views have to be wrong.

They didn't have a clue about what they were voting for. Sheer arrogance.

The vociferous Remainer campaign seems to believe that if a democratic system does not give you what you desire, perhaps you ought to change the system. To get what you want.

Mrs May's present deal with the EU is not just a bad deal, it's a terrible deal!

Half in half out.

And worse, the draft withdrawal agreement has the fingerprints of the British Civil Service all over it – not Mrs May's. The U.K. leaves the EU to remain in it. Exit means sort of staying.

Brexit was both inevitable and necessary. And lastly, during the transition period, the UK will cease to be a member of the EU – but it will not be wholly sovereign.

British statecraft is at a crossroads, because even if we had a future Labour government, the rules we've now signed up to will heavily hobble the policies it makes. So, not happy times to come, then?

ANDREW MARTIN

Weymouth