Here are more of the facts for you

SIR – Contributions to what should have been a simple and well-focused discourse started off at a disappointing level, and have since gone further downhill, most recently courtesy of GC Morris and EW Taylor. Both gents requested more facts than those presented so far. Here are some: ● I am not a politician, Mr Morris. ● It is untrue – quite the reverse – that I “do not feel that ordinary people [of which I am one] have a right to make decisions.” We elect our representatives based on their policies as set out in their manifestos. ● The British constitution does not require referenda. ● Far fewer people vote for UKIP/BNP than for the three main parties. My question was, simply: “Why, and what does this mean?” The anti-EU types’ response has been characterised by irrelevance, ignorance and personal nastiness – but has been signally unpersuasive. Obsession with their own narrow agenda blinds them to universal rules of logic, debate and the following of an argument. It would seem that Mr Taylor had neither read nor understood my earlier letter.