Johnny Luk (left) with London Assembly candidate Roberto Weeden-Sanz

• TWO-FACED or what? Prospective Tory candidate in Hampstead and Kilburn, Johnny Luk, says he voted remain in the referendum but, as a former Brexit negotiator for the Tories, he now happily says he will help make us leave the European Union, (We must leave the EU, says new Tory candidate in Hampstead and Kilburn, October 3).

Well that won’t help him win in this area, we are mostly better informed about the disaster Brexit will create. The biggest hole in this argument is that Britain is a parliamentary democracy, not ruled by referenda, and we rely on our elected MPs to make all the decisions needed on our behalf, using their knowledge and understanding of the complex issues involved.

And Mr Luk misinterprets the referendum result, saying most people voted to leave, which is false: in fact only 37 per cent of the total electorate voted to leave; the remaining 63 per cent either voted to remain or sat at home. But, as I said, we are a parliamentary democracy not one ruled by referenda, so the whole exercise was false, from stupid start to bitter end.

Quite simply the referendum was a Tory wheeze to deal with a Tory problem and we now know how well that worked. About as well as most Tory policies really, which is why many of our vital public services are now owned by the state-run enterprises of European countries, plus a smattering of other global financial concerns, including the Chinese government. So much for the Tories “taking back control.”

To my deep sadness, I have to say that Jeremy Corbyn has been sucked into this false maelstrom of lies instead of realising what a golden opportunity the disintegration of the Tory party offers: an end to their divisive, incompetent and plain nasty policies. More broadly, the public debate around the referendum failed to talk about the reason why the EU exists.

It’s not there to tell Britain what to do, as the Brexitheads seem to think. It’s there to stop us doing what we did most of the last century, fight one another in devastating wars which killed millions of Europeans. How long until the next one? Ask Boris Johnson.

DAVID REED
NW3