Madam,

In the last two weeks you have given prominent space to letters from the Remain camp that were nit-picking, convoluted, pedantic arguments, to call for the result of the referendum to be disregarded.

The arguments include that a referendum has no legal status and that the vote to leave was a narrow margin.

If the voting had gone the other way and Remain got 52 per cent of the votes and Leave only 48 per cent would they have put pen to paper to protest? Of course not. They would be rejoicing in their victory.

In 1997 we had a referendum on Welsh devolution. If I remember rightly, only 25 per cent of the Welsh electorate voted in favour, with 23 per cent against. The result was accepted and Wales got its devolution, although 75 per cent of the electorate had not voted for it.

Did your correspondents write to protest then? Of course not. They only object when their side loses.

In the run-up to the referendum project, fear was used by the Remain camp.

I suspect that many people only voted to Remain because of fear of the consequences of withdrawal rather than any love or enthusiasm for the EU.

Yours etc,

Edmund Brown, Lynton Close, Chester.

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