Letter: Whinging just a way of life regardless of the poll result

We would have whinged at the amount of public money wasted on an 'informative' leaflet which turned out to be an attempt to promote the Remain campaign.

We would have whinged about the fact that the prime minister took on the role-conflict situation of running the whole country while, at the same time, heading the Remain campaign. This had a psychological impact, making it seem as if the Remainers were the official group and the Leavers were dissenters, an attitude which seems to have become embedded in many peoples minds with some permanence.

In his position as PM he had an unfair advantage of being able to attract the attention of several significant people throughout the world who had their own reasons for wanting Britain to stay in the EU. We would have whinged about them too, poking their noses into what we considered to be our own business.

We would have whinged about the campaign of fear, based on guesswork.

We would have whinged about the fuss made about the actual amount of money we pay into the EU. Nett and gross figures were quoted and, does it matter when, whichever way you look at it, a lot more goes in than we get back out?

We would have whinged about the extension given to people to register to vote due to a rush on the system at the last minute. In short, we would have whinged about the unfairness of the whole campaign.But all this is hypothetical.

We won! We won because we didn't need a bunch of sugar-daddies telling us what to do; we could have done without them all. It would be interesting to know what the result would have been had there been no campaign at all, but I'm drifting into the realms of speculation again.

What is not speculation is that, if we are left in this no-man's-land for too long, the whinging will start in earnest, and rightly so. However, whinging will not be enough. If nothing has been resolved by the next general election we will all have to vote Ukip just to get things moving. After it is settled there is nothing to stop us reverting to our party loyalties if we so desire.

John Belcher, Madeley

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