SIR – I will be generous and assume that ‘remainers’ in the referendum had not thought through the consequences of staying as members of the EU. I am, however sickened by all those commentators in the media who apparently ignored or refused to mention the question of our Sovereignty. Nobody, including all those who were interviewed on television from both sides of the issue even mentioned the word, yet is the question of this country’s sovereignty that is at the heart of the reason for 17 million voting to leave the EU. A quick look at the dictionary will tell you that the word means ‘the right of a nation to govern itself’.

We had lost the right with our supreme court, the product of our Mother of Parliaments, being overruled by the EU Court of Law, leading to ever closer union reducing Parliament’s status of that of a County Council.

David Cameron failed to obtain cast iron guarantees that ever closer union would not apply to the UK and so as sure as God made little apples, this would have happened. The stupid ‘doomsters’ who have already been proved wrong, made one major mistake and that was to underestimate the pride, the resilience, the enterprise and the sheer doggedness of this amazing nation.

If there are any MPs, including my own who still thinks that Brexit is wrong, they may well lose their seat at the next general election. I for one have a long memory!

J H A Bennett

Upton on Severn