Sir, – Perhaps we in Ireland and the majority of EU citizens should hope that Vote Leave will be successful in the upcoming referendum in the UK. The truth is that the EU would be better off without the constant whingeing and half-truths (bendy bananas come to mind) emanating from the UK about the EU project, which has led to 70 years of peace in Europe.
Margaret Thatcher, quoting Clement Atlee, stated that referendums are for the most part the devices of dictators and demagogues. We should hope that the demagogues win the day on this occasion. – Yours, etc,
JOHN FAGAN,
Killiney,
Co Dublin.
Sir, – Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and other Tory Brexiteers are the people’s “useful idiots” in the struggle to free themselves from the yoke of the corporate and banker-serving EU and British elites.
Once the people are free from the EU, I cannot conceive of them ever again electing the likes of Major, Blair, Brown and Cameron as placemen for the rich and powerful of this world. They will demand a better form of government to serve their interests. – Yours, etc,
GEOFF NAYLOR,
Winchester,
Hampshire, England.
Sir, – To paraphrase Winston Churchill, a vote to keep Britain in the EU would be the worst possible outcome of the upcoming referendum, with the exception of the only alternative. – Yours, etc,
DAVE ROBBIE,
Booterstown,
Co Dublin.
Sir, – Ironically, even though the official vote is on June 23rd, I’ve a feeling England will have left Europe much earlier. Perhaps during the group stages. – Yours, etc,
DES CUNNINGHAM.
Dundrum,
Dublin 16.