Suzanne Hine, of Loddis­well writes:

I write in response to Dick Lloyd’s arrogant and yes, let’s say it, bigoted letter, A hasty retreat is not on cards, July 8, as one of the 52 per cent of the uncaring and uneducated voters who voted out in the EU referendum last month.

Some of you will recognise my name and know what my profession has been for the last 14 years or so and some of you will not so let me explain.

I have been working as a tour manager for some of the best known and most recognised travel companies in the UK, escorting people across Europe and the world on holiday.

These people have come from all walks of life.

I was on tour in Italy on June 23 and even though I am classed by Mr Lloyd as being uncaring and uneducated, I organised for my dad to proxy vote on my behalf.

If only the idealistic younger generation and others of the 28 per cent who did not vote had done the same, then they would not have the opportunity to be moaning now.

Holding our own mini referendum on that tour, out of 22 people – from the top educated to the lowest – 20 wanted out.

The official EU referendum was done democratically.

On the day after the vote, when the result had been announced, I left Italy to travel back via Germany to France to the UK. My hotelier friend in Germany, on stopping at his place for an evening meal with the group, was ecstatic for us and our choice.

He wishes that they had the same chance in Germany.

On arriving in France, at the last hotel, I was greeted with the same thing.

I have also lived in Ireland and Italy and have received congratulatory messages on our Brexit choice.

I may not have been to university, apart from the one called ‘life’, but I have worked in education, finance, business, law and tourism/travel.

I am still relatively young, or I like to think so, and I also know a lot of other young people who voted to leave.

From my educated studies of history, I know that we once ruled the world and that all empires eventually collapse.

Now is our chance.

The Brexit vote for me was about getting our country back and making our own rules and laws, not by being told what to do from an unelected body of people in Brussels.

Seeing at first hand the problems the EU has caused some other European countries, all of us now as a nation need to stop this toxic divide that is occurring, accept the democratic result, let the people who can ‘do’ and be positive and put the Great back into Britain again for our future generations.