LETTER: Referendum was an ill-judged farce

Apart from the delusional Joe E. Brown lookalike Farage, those who proposed Brexit have largely retreated to their burrows.

They were ill-prepared and right up to the last minutes did not expect to win.

It is my belief that, as a result, they are no longer able to realistically support their grand illusion that successfully persuaded just enough of our understandably disgruntled but mostly aimless and ill-informed citizens - 52/48 is hardly a convincing victory.

Most of us, in my view, had no adequate appreciation of the impossibly hard to discover facts – something which made the referendum an ill-judged farce rightly seized upon by Mr Craw and other better known satirists.

I suspect many Brexiteers will now be thinking that they may have made the wrong decision.

A few will shout loudly that they did not.

The result is that a half-convinced remainer now has to lead a divided government and must take the flack while attempting to organise a long drawn out peacetime Dunkirk while other remainers like Alan Craw and myself will take little comfort from believing ourselves to have been right all along.

Bob Renshaw

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