MADAM,

Anthony Owen’s rather hysterical and whiney letter (‘Voters have done unimaginable damage,’ 13th July) cannot pass with only one riposte from the Joneses, so here is my contribution.

Not a single one of the 17.4 million leave voters was misguided. On the other hand, many of those who voted remain did not really understand what they were voting for.

This is because they were voting against the UK taking back control of its own lawmaking process, and in favour of a thoroughly corrupt, undemocratic oligarchy which has failed to produce proper accounts for twenty years because so much money has gone missing. This is not an organisation, if we were to be coming to it afresh we would wish to join. Control of our own sovereignty is all.

It is rather overegging the pudding to say that the result left Mr Owen stunned, numbed, helpless and alienated. How thin-skinned. This is a massive overreaction. Does he feel the same way when a candidate for MP he votes for is not returned? In this country we have a parliamentary democracy where we accept the result of an open and fairly contested ballot. (By the way, if he were to wish to refute that the referendum was open and fair, let me observe that most of the nastiness and personal attacks were directed by remainers at leavers - named Project Fear for good reason.) However, because remainers are so shocked at a result they were not expecting, they now wish to have a second go (typical of EU corruption, you keep going until you give the result the establishment wants) or to overturn the validly given opinion of a majority of UK voters by parliamentary chicanery. Oh dear. Do you not understand that you lost - by 1.3 million votes - and should accept the result?

I am a proud leave voter, and have done my country no damage. On the contrary, I have helped to bandage a 43 year-old open wound. Given the points I have made above, I can honestly see no grown-up rationale for voting remain. I am a true patriot, and I would posit that people who voted remain are happy to see their country under a foreign yoke, and therefore are the ones who are not patriotic.

As for the break-up of the union, The Welsh and the Irish are too intelligent to vote for this, and the Scots – led by two demagogues who cannot make a coherent argument for their position– if they vote again and achieve the result desired by Sturgeon and Salmond, this disaster can be placed squarely at their door.

Do not dare to blame such an outcome on Brexiteers.

Richard Wilson

(Monmouth)