Paul Donovan writes that 17.4 million of his fellow citizens voted to leave the EU ‘due to a misunderstanding’. Apparently, we all failed to understand that the EU has nothing to do with the austerity that it is enforcing across the EU.
Has he not understood EU policy towards, for example, Greece? Does he not understand that this EU policy is austerity?
So, the majority, he thinks, misunderstood. So, now he wants the enlightened minority to correct the ignorant majority, to overrule our democratic majority decision and to push us back into the austerity-enforcing EU.
He is disrespecting our democratic decision in 2016 but expects us all to respect the outcome if in future we give what the European Commission tells us is the right answer. But if our 2016 decision was illegitimate, what could make a new decision legitimate?
Will Podmore
Clavering Road, Wanstead
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