The widespread anti-democratic reactions to the referendum result are quite worrying (Blame the electorate for getting it wrong, Letters, 27 June). The ultimate logic of such opposition – not accepting majorities of voters when you disagree with them – is well known across the world. The “saviours” of the country from the “idiocy” of an ill-informed people are the armed forces.
Peter Taylor
Tynemouth
• Cameron may well go down in history as the man who destroyed the union with Scotland and the EU. With a bit of luck he’ll also be the man who destroyed the Tory party.
Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby
University of Kent
• Malcolm Tucker had a word for it: omnishambles.
Andrew Hamling
Burnley, Lancashire
• I wonder if Johnson, Gove, Farage et al are aware of the aphorism: “Political promises are like babies: easy to make, but hell to deliver”?
John Williams
Leicester
• In any Labour leadership battle I hope that Chris Bryant will stand. For the Tories, I hope Theresa May will stand. In an early election there could then be the prospect of a contest between Bryant and May. A good match?
Roy Trahearn
Lincoln
• Nothing has actually happened yet, we are still in the EU. Today is just another day. Carry on carrying on.
Barbara Patterson
Leatherhead, Surrey
• How nicely ironic it would be if Brexit spurred the EU into reforming itself into an institution that would have been acceptable to the UK.
Tom Uprichard
London
• It gets worse: who will vote for the UK in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest?
Peter O’Prey
Belfast
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