THE country has at last made its mind up it’s about our continued membership of the European Union.

The media frenzy since the result has not helped to settle people. The result is out: let’s move forward.

David Cameron, to my mind, had to resign following the result and I believe his Chancellor should follow.

The campaign of terrorising the British public failed to deliver the response that they wanted.

I was personally disturbed by the politicians of all parties taking the same platform to try and persuade us that their way was the right way.

They should, I believe, have taken their own views into the debate based on their own political ideology.

This would have countered the Cameron/

Osborne scaremongering tactics and the Johnson/

Gove lack of good factually-based information that failed to convince us.

We are a proud people and we should now get a government that is proud and committed to Britain becoming strong again under its own leadership.

We were not considered intelligent enough to have a balanced argument for and against – therefore migration became a major part of people’s thinking as it was something tangible that people understood.

The rest of the campaign failed to enlighten us as to the many other facets of membership of the EU.

I hope we can move forward as the tolerant and generous society that defines us as a nation.

The recent reports of racism towards minority groups are an excuse for the fact that we will eventually leave the EU it has nothing to do with the result.

The government failed to deliver a comprehensive strategy for the explosion of migrants moving across Europe seeking refuge and looking to give their families a better life.

David Cameron said he would reduce the movement to tens of thousands and the latest result show some half a million people have entered Britain in the last year.

Controlling our borders will be a major problem for the government on-going. We are an island and if people will cross the Mediterranean to get to Europe, the English Channel is not such a great obstacle and we have a long coastline which would be impossible to control.

We should also not forget the shameful part that our government under Tony Blair in conjunction with George Bush took in the Middle East: going to war and then leaving when they could not bring about a peaceful resolution.

Millions of lives are being lost, as well as the loss of our brave young soldiers who gave their lives for nothing.

The upshot did not settle the problems but brought about the total failure

of governance in the

Middle East and hence the continuing wars that are displacing its peaceful population around Europe.

We should now give support to a new beginning in our country’s long and, in general, progressive history.

People have now let the government know that policies that they have adopted over the last few years are not working for the majority of our people and Europe’s lack of progress in securing a more balanced society has also failed.

Let’s hope that our government has learnt lessons from this exercise in democracy. You are elected by the people for the people and not a minority group of privileged individuals.

– Bob Harris, Berry Hill.