In reply to Mrs C Primrose (Letters, October 4) and other bulldozing Brexiteers.

History shows us that nationalism is the deadly nightshade of civilised and thoughtful politics, and we are seeing it again with what amounts to a media blackout of the first referendum in 1975, that joined the UK to Europe.

I do not recall when voting in favour of that decision that there would be another referendum to trash the economy and make the nation poorer.

How come we only have the ‘will of the people’ when it favours the rabid right?

Nationalists, always in a blinded alley, seem oblivious to the Tory tirade on community cuts on a society now so savage.

We see murders, wrecking sprees on people’s property, homelessness, and children living in shipping containers. Correspondents like Mrs Primrose and Lindsay Glenn (Letters, October 11) would be better served directing their woeful words towards the 7,000 jobs that Sunderland will lose as project fear edges towards an economic reality.

Not to mention the potential effects on medical supplies, with notices pinned up in our local chemist warning of shortages.

Ever sine the 1975 referendum, numpty nationalists have never accepted being part of Europe, and now they demonise democrats who oppress their tribe, to see the UK as a new penny opera abandoned to the whims of deadly nightshade politics.

Sorry, Brexiteers, you are pathetic and a parody of what a progressive country should be.

Surely the issue is the country’s economy and jobs, not puerile patriotism?

Collin Rossini

Main Road, Dovercourt