Lucy Mangan (TV review, 8 January) and Carole Cadwalladr (G2, 8 January) fall into the classic trap of reacting to a TV drama inspired by real events as though it was a documentary. The one mistake of the makers of Brexit: the Uncivil War was the choice of title. It’s not (simply) about Brexit. It’s about the power of irrational forces in political life. It’s about the hubris of an individual who thinks he can manipulate events but unleashes dark forces which he cannot control. It’s about the irony of the slogan “take back control”. A veritable tragic drama with a flawed individual at its centre.
Richard Norman
Canterbury
• I watched Brexit: the Uncivil War to try to understand more about the whole debacle. Unfortunately at the end I was more depressed, and angry at its onesidedness. As Carole Cadwalladr suggests, and as I have on more than one occasion written to you about, we might be “leaving Europe on the back of an illegal and corrupted vote”. This element was totally brushed over in the drama. Please, please, can somebody with clout and power in this country have the courage to bring a court case against this fraud of a vote? Our descendants will never forgive us otherwise.
Catherine Roome
Staplehurst, Kent
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