PAM Wintersgill (May 15) cites ‘the great astrologer Sir Patrick Moore’ (d.2012) in presumed support of Brexit: a tellingly cringeworthy example of Leave ‘logic’, not least since ‘astrologers’ peddle future guidance on a completely nonscientific basis ... as distinct from astronomers (as Patrick Moore was) who study the past and present workings of the physical universe empirically.

She then berates Charles de Gaulle (more fairly, we might at least agree) as in ingrate turncoat for barring his wartime hosts from the later Common Market. But if turncoats as such are so reprehensible, how about former Remainer Theresa May, or indeed Nicola Blackwood ditto, whose platform perversely seems not ‘strong and stable’ enough for her to face the hurly-burly of public hustings?

Meanwhile, if chary of foreign ‘gravy-train’ politicians, has Ms Wintersgill not spotted all those home-grown ones, such as Ms Blackwood again, who somehow chose to ramp up last summer’s ‘advisory’ 37 per cent of the electorate (itself flawed and misinformed) into pro-unamended Article 50 House of Commons majorities more than twice as pungent? Classic cases of desperate Brexiteers clutching grandiloquently at flawed arguments: are we surprised?

Perhaps they could instead reassure us about that stillunanswered promise of the £350m the NHS would be getting ‘since Brexit’, which might at least get ‘the best possible deal’ on a few Antivirus site licences ... since Treeza presumably has this entirely under strong and stable control, and could have shared such glad tidings with her faithful few in one of those woebegone empty factories (or maybe even a hospital)?

IAN MILES

Vintner Road, Abingdon