LORD Kerr insulted we the electorate with his withering condemnation: “We native Brits are so stupid that we need an injection of intelligent people, young people from outside who come in and wake us up from time to time.”
He then said, post the June referendum, and to compound his first slur: “Student politics may have trashed the country but now it’s time for the grown-ups to reassert themselves.”
He was saying, in effect, that we didn’t know what we were talking about when we voted overwhelmingly to leave the doomed EU.
The US electorate, too, has shaken “the establishment” to the core by electing Donald Trump to be their next President instead of the much-vaunted Hillary Clinton.
Could it be that we in Britain have grown tired of the patronising spoutings of Lord Kerr and his ilk, want to get out of the EU and be, once more, the Great Britain we used to be before joining the Common Market/EU?
Doubtless Lord Kerr would say: “The peasants are revolting.”
Yes we are, but not in the way Lord Kerr would mean.
Philip Roe, Roman Avenue South, Stamford Bridge
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