Have you noticed that any BBC interview outside Westminister accompanies an orchestrated waving of EU flags?

Are you surprised to learn that the UK will be leaving Europe, rather than the EU?

Are Radio 4 listeners dismayed by the prominence afforded to Remoaners’ pessimistic forecasts?

The increasingly negative propaganda is intended to create fear in the minds of those of us silly billies who are deemed to have foolishly or unthinkingly voted for our country’s independence from the rickety promised land that is the EU.

Eurosceptics see the referendum result as being based on people’s experience of 40 years of reality; the Brussels-Strasbourg monstrosity is, for us, a developing disaster that is far removed from the Common Market for which two-thirds of the population voted, including Mrs Gullible here.

Scaremongering did succeed, over the years, in persuading Irish, Dutch and French voters to reverse their freedom decisions to escape from the EU but we, on these small islands, react stubbornly to being told how to think; remember Barack Obama’s US trade deal threat that the UK would be “… at the back of the line”?

That backfired in spectacular fashion and, more recently, Gary Lineker and his ilk are disillusioned if they expect us to keel over.

Having spoken to many passers by in Kingsbridge and Totnes, the den of our Remoaner MP Sarah Wollaston, while manning a ‘Get on with Brexit’ street stall, I am vastly encouraged by the hardened resolve of voters on both sides, and feel that the ongoing intransigence of unelected and unsackable EU commissioners will probably serve to add to our digging in of heels.

We Eurosceptics are less vociferous than the Europhiles, whose celebrities collude with the Brussels’ elite and who are happy to throw their money into the project. We need to change.

We mustn’t keep quiet. We need to educate the naive Remainers who ask us where the funding will come from if Brussels’ generosity ceases. Yes, we were asked that. These people need to realise that people will be encouraged to travel or work abroad, just as we did prior to EU membership.

The latest set-up to catch my eye is Devon for Europe (note, not the EU) which amazingly claims to support democracy while battling to overthrow the will of the majority.

Shall we, following future general elections, be subjected to months or years of argument and action until we settle for the minority’s demands?

Bullies don’t always win.

Val Gibbons

Seymour Drive, Dartmouth