Brexit Britain: ‘The only elephant in the room is the utter failure of federalism, so we are better off out. They don’t want us back and we don’t want to rejoin’

• THE piece (Wye’s Words, Review, June 6) about Brexit Britain mentions the economic consequences but says nothing about the political reasons the European Union was created, the real reason it came about.

Of course, not all EU rules are wrong and we do need to improve our relationship with the bloc. This is in everyone’s interest.

The idea we left based on jingoism and nostalgia is nonsense. The EU is overly bureaucratic, undemocratic, and deeply corrupt.

A move much further to the right is worrying, but the EU never listens to the people it purportedly represents and is totally arrogant, which is one of the reasons for this.

Populism therefore is not unique to the UK as claimed by James O’Brien, as reported in the article.

Peter Foster of the Financial Times, the other person talking with O’Brien is not surprisingly pro-EU as the big multinationals are in favour together with the banks.

Many of these are tax dodgers, so are quite in favour of maintaining the status quo.

The main reason that we have seen the austerity / cost of living crisis was due to the collapse of some of the banks and the subsequent policies of the coalition government with David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg which happened before we left the EU and who were all in favour of remaining.

There has also been the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, and the war in Ukraine. If we’d stayed we would still have had the problems and been paying a shed load of money into the EU as well.

The Tory government of Edward Heath took us in with a deal which was awful as he was desperate to join.

The only elephant in the room is the utter failure of federalism, so we are better off out. They don’t want us back and we don’t want to rejoin.

PAUL BONNY, NW5