I don’t get it. The world is constantly changing. Chancellors set new budgets. Voters take a view on the situation, which may vary from time to time. In other words they change their minds and yet Brexiteers argue that having a second referendum would cause the greatest constitutional crisis ever seen. The difference between now and the referendum is that the facts are much clearer, the implications better understood.

Why is it that the supporters of Brexit persist in writing as if the decision has just been taken, by a voting population that had clear understanding of all the facts and the implications and were keen to get on with it?

Yes, 52 per cent voted Brexit, but that was three years ago. What is obvious by the complete failure by the Government or even the hard core Brexiteers to agree a negotiating position, is that actually there were and are an infinite number of views on Brexit (well 17 million nuanced opinions – everyone has a different set of priorities). If 17 million people clearly still thought that Brexit was the right way forward, and the implications of such a move were costed, the impact on science and technology understood, the ability of GB Ltd to trade with its old and new partners defined and measured, the position determined how the NHS and our farms will be staffed, our young people were confident about the way forward after Brexit, we had an agreed a common defence approach with our allies etc etc then their outcry would have substance.

However they are stuck like a record at the moment the vote was taken and all that they have done ever since is repeat the old clichés (oh yes, they have dropped the promise of £350 million for the NHS every week). If they are so confident in the strength of their position, then they should welcome people voting once more and finally with real facts in front of them.

Mark Watkin

Hempstead Road, Watford