I ATTENDED the recent Brexit meeting hosted by Bolton West MP Chris Green.

The majority of the people at the meeting seemed to be delusional people of my age wanting to leave Europe.

What worries me is that they would all be dead before the benefits, if any, of leaving Europe could be seen.

It is the young who will pay the price; they may cheer that English is spoken around the world, but the latest research suggests that it will be overtaken by all the languages.

The world is changing and the Victorian era is gone.

The emerging markets will be China, Russia and India, not North America.

The Empire has gone, never to return. People are fooling themselves if they think yesteryear will return. It is the young that we should be thinking of.

Our biggest market is the ECC and you do not turn your back on your biggest market. Chris Green said we should do a deal with America as they're gagging to do a deal with us.

Donald Trump has already said America first, everybody else gets a rotten deal, and so saying we'll get a good deal is delusional.

Do we want America to run our National Health Service? We will pay for it if they do!

You only have to look at the American Health Service to see that. To do a deal we would have to take GM crops ­— adulterated chicken and steroids in the beef, because if we don't there is no trade deal.

We are already stockpiling medicines as it is predicted we will run short or even run out; Europe has already said we can't have the navigation system, into which we have already paid £1.2 billion, for security reasons; no free movements means we could be shorter of doctors, nurses, care home assistants and agricultural workers than we are now so we don't really care.

If we trade globally, it means we have to defend ourselves as far as our trade routes are concerned, but we haven't got an army; we have a beautiful aircraft carrier that cannot be defended because the vessels needed to defend it cannot sail in warm water this government at the moment.

This is truly incompetent as this carrier is supposed to be deploying off China by 2020, but its defence ships will not be ready until 2022.

The last time these ships were on manoeuvres with NATO, the NATO ships had to travel at half speed so we could keep up. I am told the Russians thought it was great fun!

We want to go it alone and we have an atomic bomb, but it cannot be used unless America agrees so that's a really independent deterrent, isn’t it?

Also, could somebody tell me who are we going to fire it at? Let me retire to Bedlam because anybody at that meeting has not thought this through.

I voted to leave, but not anymore.

We need another referendum because the Leave team lied, cheated and broke election laws.

The result of the first referendum should be cancelled and rerun.

I was at that meeting and I felt the misinformation continued; the meeting was in denial ­—four per cent in favour is too small a majority to change the constitution of the nation.

Parliament should reject any deal and an MP hiding behind a simple majority is betraying not only her/his constituents, but also the nation.

It's a betrayal of all those people who voted to stay.

Do not let us hide behind a smoke screen of democracy when the future of this nation is at stake.

A second referendum without lies is needed forthwith with a much wider margin of success to bring the nation together.

Ian Greenhalgh

Smithills