I WOULD be the first to admit, as Richard Grant (Letters, June 25) suggests, it was by no means a landslide victory for “Brexit” campaigners but a victory is a victory whichever way one may look at it or work out statistics.

Having lived under the yolk of the EU Bureaucrats in Brussels for the past 40 or more years it stands out like the proverbial sore thumb that we true Brits are blessed with ten times the tolerance and patience the Europhiles have when you consider the mud and slime that’s been thrown around by these people during the few days we’ve known the referendum result and who obviously have no faith in their country or the fact we can flourish as a free sovereign nation, unshackled as we now are.

The point of Richard Grant’s letter that riles me most is his suggestion that many of the Leave campaigners were once “foreigners”, implying they were probably immigrants (the European “cousins” he’s always raving about), he’s wrong in all probability but if he isn’t it would be a sad case of these cousins stabbing him in the back, maybe in future he will change his attitude toward people from mainland Europe, or any other “foreigner”.

His latest rant (June 28) to suggest a general election is a pipe dream, does he truly believe the people (the majority) would allow any member of the three main parties (who after all are mainly Europhiles) to regain their seats with the sole purpose of forcing us to remain tied to Brussels.

Dream on Richard.

LA O’Bee
Southampton