GIUSEPPE ENRICO BIGNARDI (HAS, March 20) has repeated the quote: “Referendums should be held when people know exactly what they are getting ... we should not ask people to vote on a blank sheet and tell them to trust us to fill in the details afterwards.”
This is quite right. Unfortunately, a referendum was allowed to take place when people didn’t know what they were voting for. The way I see it, that mistake cannot be made because as we’ve seen it leads to a situation where there is no correct course of action to take.
I’m glad that Theresa May isn’t an athlete; otherwise in an athletics meeting, she would be demanding as many attempts at her event as it takes for her to win the gold medal.
People demanding that we leave the European Union on March 29 are marching from Sunderland to London. People demanding a second referendum are about to march in London.
Reading the letters from Bill Fisher and Michael Potter (HAS, Mar 16) it is clear that correspondents to HAS will not agree with one another either.
March 29 is the birthday of the Greek composer Vangelis. I will just say “to hell with Brexit”, and play music by Vangelis during much of that day. I have seen enough about Brexit to convince me that we may as well stop trying to solve the issue, as I see no light at the end of the tunnel.
So, don’t look for any; instead learn to ride a horse in case the UK runs out of fuel.
Jeremy Whiting, Great Lumley
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