To The Age Your editorial on Brexit ("Britain cannot turn its back on the EU", 16/11) wrongly makes light of the clear verdict of the 2016 referendum which undoubtedly meant that a majority wanted a complete and fundamental severance of British sovereignty from EU jurisdiction. One of the most vital elements was precisely the need to throw off any subjugation to EU courts, for this would enable a vital restoration of free speech in Britain. Your language betrays you: British loyalists and their Australian supporters are smeared as 'little Englanders", who are "misty-eyed" and "jingoist". Meanwhile the globalist functionary Macron shows the kind of future that would lie in the EU: eventual complete absorption and subordination to a "European army".
Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic