Don
Wood, Howden. Yorks Post.
The views of remainers A Davies and John Turley (Letters, July 29) are
just a re-hash of oft repeated but greatly flawed logic by the anti-Brexit
brigade.
Mr Davies states incorrectly that the majority voting for leaving was
smaller than that voting to join in 1975.
There has never been a vote to join. Edward Heath would not allow a
referendum because he would have lost hands down, with about 70 per cent of both
the public and the commons then being against joining. The 1975 vote was a vote
to remain in the Common Market which we joined in 1973, and was the result of a
very lopsided campaign loaded in favour of the Common Market by the then Labour
government. Also, a vote by 17.42 million people must be far more democratic
than one by only 650 people, most with self interest at heart and not the
country’s.
Like all the remainers he mentions the percentages and like all remainers
claims the ones who did not vote, would have voted remain, this is totally
illogical, the remainers must not only accept the referendum result they must
also accept that those who did not vote, did not care one way or the other, so
are basically irrelevant.
Mr Turley also uses the same old lame reasons for the vote to leave none
of any value, the leave voters voted to take back control of our country by our
Parliament, there were no false promises on NHS spending or anything else as he
wrongly asserts.
He also claims those who did not vote would have voted to remain, and
claims that this is what opinion polls say, but all the polls before the
referendum predicted a remain victory. A lot of polls have predicted the same
sort of result as the proper referendum, and a lot of people who have now seen
project fear for the empty lies that it was may vote to leave instead of
remain.
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