YOUR article, ‘Campaigner’s pride as Brexit song rings out’, illustrated the extreme level of fanaticism of the Remainiacs, who refuse to accept the democratic verdict of the referendum.

Elections are a travesty of democracy, since voters select one candidate on the basis of one or two policies (assuming they believe that those policies will be implemented), but by so doing, they then have to endorse other policies with which they disagree.

Referenda are the only true form of democracy.

I was amused by the reference to Beethoven’s setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy.

Nobody loves old Ludwig more than I do, but he was irascible by nature, and found it difficult to tolerate anyone on a personal level.

His naïve belief in the French Revolution and the Brotherhood of Man caused him to dedicate the Eroica Symphony to Napoleon, but he tore up the dedication when Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor.

Enforced EU mass immigration has created the multicultural society, which sinks to the level of its lowest common denominator, and the more aggressive the culture, the more that culture is prioritised.

For instance, the concept of animal welfare is now being severely undermined, in order to accommodate the many abominations practiced by other cultures, and what little progress we have made in that field will soon become obsolete.

Here in Oxford, the Remaniacs see no inconsistency in encouraging the massive rise in population while professing concern for the erosion of the Green Belt, and the inevitable destruction of our wildlife.

We cannot progress as a species if we constantly have to continually placate and appease others, no matter how much we abhor certain aspects of their culture.

A certain level of unanimity is essential for any society to function properly.

MARK PRITCHARD Linkside Avenue, Oxford