It’s time to stop this nit-picking

I AM getting extremely tired of people going on about overturning the Brexit vote.

This was a democratic vote, just like a general election.

Do we complain if the candidate we vote for does not get in? No, we have to accept it.

We had to accept the vote back in 1975. We didn’t turn round and say we wanted another vote. We just got on with our everyday lives.

We have had 40 years of the EU and it has gradually got worse and worse for the UK.

We pay far too much money into this bottomless pit.

Back in June 1975, we were never fully told what it would mean to join the Common Market.

My husband and I never voted to join. We didn’t have a crystal ball, but we knew it was not going to be as good as we were led to believe and we are still of the same opinion at the ages of 65 and 67 years old.

To all of you who voted to remain in the EU, instead of moaning about losing the vote, you should pull together with the rest of us.

We were a great country once and we can be great again if we all pull together instead of nit picking over everything.

Theresa May is our Prime Minister, let her get on with her job.

J Carter, Nelson

Referendum is not the way

BECAUSE they did not get the result they wanted, and because of alleged changes since, both the Remoaners and Nicola Sturgeon want to have another referendum on Brexit and Scottish independence.

If granted will this be the death of democracy.

How often in the past have governments been elected on promises made in their pre-election manifesto and how often, when these promises are not forthcoming, have we had another election? Never.

On a personal note, I would kick Scotland out of the UK. I object to Scottish MPs sitting in the House of Commons making decisions on the future of people in England when my elected MP cannot sit in the Scottish Parliament making decisions on what happens in Scotland.

They have free education right up to university level and free prescriptions for all introduced by the Scottish Parliament. Why don’t we in England?

Alan Cox, Blackburn

Trip is all set to mark battle

This year marks the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele in Belguim.

The British army suffered over 300,000 casualties in what became known as the ‘battle of the mud’. Many were from Scotland.

Between Sunday, June 25 and Friday, June 30, I will be leading a coach party to visit the battlefield and also to see the special exhibitions and events being held to mark the centenary.

There will be an opportunity to visit a relative’s grave by arrangement.

We still have a few places left. Contact me by phone on 01368 866826, mobile 07710 270640 or by email on johndavidraw@gmail.com.

They can also write to me at Beachcote, Golf House Road, Dunbar, EH42 1LS

David Raw

Think about disabled travel

I CAN understand train companies wanting to save money and get rid of the guards so the driver controls the doors. Have rail companies thought about the help guards give disabled passengers?

I am a disabled rail user. The guards get the ramps out to get the wheelchair on the train and having a guard on the train makes a lot of people feel safer. Who will be checking tickets on the train?

Will it encourage more fare-dodging because at many stations there is nothing to stop you getting off a train and walking straight out of the station.

Steve Summer, Blackburn