I'm so utterly fatigued by Brexit that I will never vote in an election again

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I have voted in every parliamentary election since I have been able – for the last 45 years. I will never vote under any circumstances in any future election.

It matters not which party or candidates I have voted for, it matters not how I voted in the Brexit referendum, I have completely and utterly lost all faith in the UK parliament.

MPs are clearly and generally motivated solely by self-promotion and self-interest, and have little or no interest in the people they are supposed to represent or their views.

They do not have the ability or will to understand and embrace compromise. They take an oath of allegiance to the Crown, but this should be an oath of allegiance to the people. Were this the case most would by now have broken it.

Just how low will the turnout be at the next general election? It is hard to find anyone who does not feel the same among my friends. Democracy cannot survive in its current form in this country as things stand, it is a very sick and poorly patient close to death.

Martin Sommers
Warsash

Remainers have been quite passive, actually

I was astonished to read Claire Johnson’s letter (“Where were you all when it was time to vote”) that she refers to Remainers as “extremists” and that she lives in fear of airing her views to them (presumably in fear of violence).

In fact, as a Remainer I have been frustrated at our general passivity.

When the Leavers were peddling their lies on buses, billboards and the social network, Remainers were reticent in putting the very strong counter arguments for staying in the EU.

If we had been more forthright, we may not be in this unholy mess now. Might I remind her that it is not Remainers who, when MPs disagree with their views, are calling them traitors, threatening to rape and behead them, and calling our judges “enemies of the people”.

Kate Hall
Leeds

Interesting letter from Claire Johnson. If she had written in, let us say, a week ago I would have directed her to the permanent fixture of activists outside parliament.

I have attended and all the profanity, vitriol, and aggression comes from the anti-EU faction. This is just a fact.

I also attended the march on Saturday and all I experienced was well-functioning, polite, helpful, patient people from all over the UK; and conspicuous by their absence were police-officers; they were not required.

Last but not least, I sincerely doubt that any pro-EU activists shouted at or even attacked people speaking languages other than English on public transport or even in the street.

I hope this is helpful and reassuring.

Robert Boston
Kingshill

What next after a Final Say?

It is generally agreed that the Leave vote was, in large part, a symptom of profound economic and social discontent following the largest spending cuts in post-war history, the longest fall in living standards since the Napoleonic Wars and a profound distrust of a London-centric and distant political establishment.

This has only grown since the referendum in 2016 as the divide between “haves” and “have nots” increase and the pressure on underfunded services most people depend on have grown unsustainable.

And yet, in all of the articles on a Final Say, I have yet to see any concrete proposals on how this will be addressed if there is a vote and the 2016 result is reversed.

We can be sure that Farage, Johnson and the rest of the snake oil salesmen will be out in force shouting betrayal and “cry havoc and unleash the unicorns of war!” So, to counter this, there must be a vision of what will change, what will be different, in the lives not just of those of us who marched at the weekend, or signed the petition but people who voted Leave last time or didn’t vote at all. A 52-48 per cent vote in favour, say, of revoking Article 50 will be a pyrrhic victory if the justifiable grievances that led so many to vote to leave last time are not addressed and left to fester and will mean it won’t remotely be a Final Say that ends division and somehow reunites our country.

John Murray
Bracknell

Happier times

Shall we be getting our own mathematics back as well as our country after Brexit? I so miss the rod poles and perches of my youth and cannot wait to be using nothing but pounds shillings and pence again. Bring back all those wonderful summer days when England was in charge and the future was in our own hands – I can’t wait!

Jennifer Bell
Tiverton

Faith schools socially selective?

Are you sure that this report applies to Scotland? Scotland has a completely different education system and I don’t recognise it in this report.

Libby Lamb
Aviemore