Letter: Lies and spin go on and on over Brexit

Then we had the "will of the people" lie (52 per cent of electors who voted did so to leave the EU whereas only 26 per cent of the people voted to leave the EU so this is clearly not the will of the majority of the people).

Then there was Theresa May saying in her Lancaster House speech that "both sides in the referendum campaign made it clear that a vote to leave the EU would be a vote to leave the Single Market." Again not true, to quote Daniel Hannan, Tory Vote Leave campaigner "absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market" .

That was not the only lie. In the Lancaster House speech, in her concluding remarks May said that the "overwhelming majority of people... want us to get on with it'" (given the rest of her speech the "it" she refers to can only be a "hard Brexit"). That's not the message I am hearing from the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, the SNP, Greens, Labour (at least those in the Labour Party who have not meekly given in as their leader has), even some Tories, plus Britain For Europe, The European Movement and the multitude of pressure groups which have sprung up since the referendum, including "The 48 per cent" with over 50,000 members.

We want the best for the UK but that does not mean we are "on the same side" as this right wing Tory Government whose rhetoric, actions and contempt for Parliamentary democracy are exacerbating divisions in our society and threatening to wreck our economy.

The lies and spin go on and on in this "post truth" world we now find ourselves in.

Steve Boyd, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant

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