Prime minister Boris Johnson

• TRAITORS, unpatriotic, surrender, no respect of democracy are just some of the terms some shrill Brexiteers have cast at remain supporters, like myself, in using derogatory language.

I never denigrated, in any way, people who voted leave even when both Tory campaigns were peppered with lies and smears fuelled by fear.

If the situation had been reversed with 52 per cent voting remain you can bet your bottom dollar that Brexiteers would have said the margin of 4 per cent was too slim to offer a clear mandate. And would have argued for another referendum, and then another if they did not get their way.

As in 2016 and now leading Brexiteers would, and have, made any promise while exploiting frustrations irrespective of social-economic impact.

Prime minister Boris Johnson has received several political bloody noses since he took office in July. He has repeatedly tried to steamroller his preferred new-Brexit-deal that is 100 pages long, with 600 pages of notes, has 40 clauses, and released it only 12 hours before parliamentarians read it, were expected to digest it, and vote on it. That left little room for scrutiny.

In June 2016 we could legitimately be called bad and badly informed Europeans. Much has changed in the intervening years. We may now be some of the best informed Europeans.

Yes, people are fed up with the whole Brexit debate and want it done. And our prime minister acts like a toddler when he cannot get his own way.

He first acted unlawfully then followed it up sending an unsigned letter that was not on headed paper asking for an extension. Now that’s what I call an Eton Mess.

PATRICK EDLIN
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