Mr Ellis (Letters, July 1) was perfectly right to question my woolly wording about post-Brexit travel in Europe: the statement should have referred to the deprivation of the freedom to travel, as and when the whim takes them, without visas or other similar parochial and bureaucratic hindrances.

I should like to correct his interpretation that I wrote an anti-Brexit diatribe: It was a protest against lying and dishonesty - the gross dishonesty of and political spin from the ones who conducted the leave campaign, a dishonesty equally apparent subsequently in the fudges and pretences produced to divert justifiable criticisms of actions and behaviour. 

Of course, it is equally true that I am opposed to Brexit whole-
heartedly, because, as I said previously, the Allies saved Europe from a tyranny and gave it the chance to redirect itself safely into a world that is as small as is the view of it from the moon, and in which nationalistic, religious and self-
serving narrowness threaten self-destruction. We have now proved that we British are petty-minded, cocks crowing on our own dunghills.

I must add two observations: the one Nigel Farage’s oafish behaviour in mocking his fellow MEPs on the day after the Brexit result, which made me heartily ashamed to be British; the other a recent article by a Dutch woman who had experienced her country’s war-time occupation and who settled in Britain because of its toleration of others. That toleration is no longer here and she feels herself a stranger, which is to me just as shameful as Farage’s capers.

Finally, what will be clear whatever the outcome of leaving the European Union should be, none of the Brexiteers who engineered the process will suffer its consequences to the extent that the rest of us are or will be suffering, but doubtless they might express regret for their achievements without, of course, offering to make the damage good.

John Benson
Dunlin Court, Kelvedon