As one who believes that Brexit is the most ill-advised step Britain has taken in centuries, I am glad that Jim Weedon and I can agree in condemning Donald Trump and his supporters.

However I profoundly disagree with his insulting contention that Remainers are cut from the same cloth.

In fact, Brexiteers are the natural bedfellows of Trump.

One has to look no further than the admiring comments of Michael Gove and Nigel Farage on the President, who has always expressed his admiration for Brexit and its facilitators.

Farage has also spoken at Trump rallies so presumably agrees with his ideals.

Boris Johnson’s uncritical admiration of Trump is a mistaken stance now the United States has a grown up in charge again. You can tell a man by his friends.

In this country it is Johnson and his government who have been guilty of trying to railroad Brexit through both the courts and Parliament.

The referendum was decided by a majority of 1,269,501 votes, a very slender majority indeed to warrant implementing such profound changes that will influence the lives of 66 million people.

Over 48 million of the population either voted against leaving, chose not to vote or were not consulted, thus allowing the 17 million leave voters to tow the rest of us out into the middle of the Atlantic.

I argue that Remainers had and still have every right to contest Brexit and engage in lawful protest.

We should also continue to watch a government that pushed through the trade agreement with virtually no Parliamentary scrutiny on the very last day possible, narrowly avoiding the catastrophe of no-deal.

Who knows what is hidden within its thousand or so pages and whether we can trust this administration to maintain EU standards on human rights, health and safety, the environment and the individual’s protection under the law?

In reply to Colin Scott, I maintain that Brexit will continue to be a disaster for this country in business, trade, science and technology, education and security.

Trade with the EU is now more difficult than it was, not generally a feature of trade deals, which I thought were supposed to make things simpler.

Other than to give some right-wingers a warm fuzzy feeling in their super-patriotic tummies it has done nothing for the well-being of this country and has strained and possibly broken the Union that Johnson and his chums claim to value so.

Blue passports? I would rather have the Erasmus scheme back.

Far from finding any cause for rejoicing I lost my country on June 17 2016.

ALASTAIR FRASER

West Mickley