Assault on facts and truth led to Brexit | Letters
Readers reflect on the 2016 referendum and its lasting impact
Winston Churchill once said: “No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” The Brexit campaign was run by multimillionaires who loathed regulation, and they persuaded people who appeared to have not been educated about politics or economics at school, or received alternative views or information from trade unions, to vote leave (‘There’s no jobs’: struggle and regret in a Welsh town that backed Brexit, 21 June).
There was, and is, a lot wrong with the EU, but the lies told about what membership really meant were the biggest assault on facts and truth in British political history. That is continuing today under the Reform UK and Restore Britain banners, which have “normalised” the type of language that got Enoch Powell sacked by Ted Heath.
Philip Clayton
London
