Madam,

I was a fellow speaker with your correspondent (‘Trump visit has only deepened my fears’ Letters, Cambrian News, 19 July) at the Ardudwy branch of the Labour Party anti-Trump rally in Barmouth, earlier this month. Brexit and Trump took up much of the attention of the gathering. Cllr Deakin spoke against Brexit which the UK and Wales (though not us here in Dwyfor Meirionnydd) voted for and he spoke against Donald Trump, whom America voted for.

What unites Trump’s election and EU referendum is not only Deakin dislike but also the widespread disillusion with the establishments, the ruling classes, across the Western democracies.

In brief, the ruling class had lost the confidence of the people and hence the right to govern. Trump’s and the Brexit vote had it in common that many were casting a ‘thumbs down’ vote against the ruling class.

What they got for their troubles in the US was a clown president behind whose antics the ruling class could continue unhampered. Here in the UK we have been treated to a spectacle, a farcical debate led on both sides by sections of the ruling class.

The Brexiteers are led by the madcap capitalists, Johnson and Fox.

Those really wanting to Remain (a campaign started by the discredited Cameron and Osborne) are led by the Tories’ May and by Hunt, who has brought the NHS to its knees.

The Brexit debate is a spectacle because it gives both sections of the ruling class real popular support whilst diverting everyone from the appalling record of our politicians, bankers, governments and ruling elites. Trump thrives with his US supporters by claiming still to upset the US establishment, as do the Brexiteers here, whilst the establishment Remainers simply want a collective amnesia about their political histories.

“Get rid of the ruling class” wasn’t on the EU ballot paper but that was what many voters were expressing in the only way open to them. Let us hope that all remember the appalling practices of our ruling class and that Corbyn’s message of equality and peace is heard above the Brexit hubbub when May calls the next General Election.

Yours etc,

Ian MacIntyre, Barmouth.

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