Sick of being labelled dumb?

An article in The Sunday Times today titled 'Brainy Brits come out for Brexit' echoed my own thoughts. A group of intellectuals from economists, lawyers, philosophers, historians and scientists have come together to counter the argument that Brexiteers are thick.

Lately I've been getting pig sick at the unrelenting bias in the media against those who voted for Brexit. Labelled as thick, idiotic, unthinking, misguided and worse, as racists - those who voted for Brexit are beginning to get very annoyed.

As I've said before on these pages, I voted Brexit because I don't believe that Britain should go in the same direction as a unified EU with a single army, government, currency and foreign policy. I don't believe the words spoken recently, that those aims are not the EU's. Those aims have been clear for decades. I wanted control back, and for the EU politicians to stop outvoting the UK at all manner of summit meetings - imposing second rate politicians such as Jean-Claude Juncker on us. I wanted to stop paying loads of money to finance inefficient French farmers and the corrupt common agriculural policy, and greedy Spanish fishermen trawling their nets through British waters while British fishermen go empty handed.

It wasn't about immigration for me, but sovereignty.

That means every morning when I wake up, switch on the Today programme, listen to the business section, I listen daily to the proclamations of doom by various businessmen brought on and cajoled into anti-brexit sentiment by the presenters.

When I watch question time or listen to any questions, I see three or four remainers out-numbering the single brexiteer.

When I watch any TV satirical comedy, the all jokes will be at the expense of dumb brexiteers or the brexiteers in the cabinet. If the EU has just shoved out a draft that Britain will be punished in negotiations, the comedians have a go at British MPs and negotiators for daring to go in with a demanding position. There is no opprobrium for the EU side creating the threats. If it's not that it's because 'we want all foreigners to go home'. I'm beginning to tire of it all...

Another comedy the other day, which has never approached politics in any way, suddenly had the two thickest characters saying that they'd voted Brexit. It makes you want to chuck something at the screen.

There is a deep bias in the media, which we all know about, for trying to obstruct Brexit, trying to make out that we didn't have a clue what we were voting for, that it was stupid to vote for Brexit, and only enlightened people voted to remain. It is demonstrated daily by the presenters, the choice of panellists and choices of news stories.

I am sick of it. Please treat us with respect, as we have to the remainers.

Squiffy.