Slim chance of reconciliation

In reply to Name and Address Supplied (September 1), I do accept the referendum result, and nowhere in my letter did I suggest people should resist or block Brexit.

I think I did say the word “Remoaner” is an insult, so I’m not surprised you call me one.

I see you don’t have the courage to let the Echo print your name.

Brexiteers are fond of quoting Winston Churchill, so I’ll remind you of something else he said: “In victory, magnanimity.”

But I’ve seen little of that towards the 48% who voted Remain.

People are still writing to the Echo rejoicing: “We won! We won! You lost!”

If only the silent majority would stay silent.

Nigel Farage told a rally of Trump supporters that 17million decent people voted for Brexit.

So what does that make me? Indecent? Not much chance of reconciliation there.

So now I believe referendums are a bad idea.

It’s the binary nature of the question that bothers me.

Leave or Remain – that was all we were asked.

I would like to vote yes to the question – Do you want Britain to keep its political independence but remain in the single market?

What worries me now if we’ve had one referendum, the silent majority will want governments to stop making decisions and put every issue to the vote.

Let’s have a new referendum every week.

I can see that hoary old topic bring back hanging on the ballot paper.

When Clement Attlee was asked what he thought of referendums, he replied: “Dictators like them.”

Hitler had a few, didn’t he? C J Napier, Washington.