People are calling this letter to the FT about Brexit: “letter of the year”

Full credit to the Financial Times for printing this. Letter of the year. pic.twitter.com/uPm0Xq45YC

— Tim Stanley (@timothy_stanley) December 16, 2016

Face it. PLU blew it for everyone but themselves
From Keith Craig, London SW7, UK

Sir, Your pages overflow with predictions of disaster brought on by the Brexit/Trump axis. Leaving aside the depressing and repetitive pointlessness of this mass guesswork, its underlying assumption — that things were better when People Like Us were in charge — is at best dubious, at worst delusional. Under PLU rule, we have two failed wars and the Middle East in flames, China expansionist, Europe enfeebled, America ineffective and Russia resurgent. At home, we have banking crises, stagnant median incomes, uncontrolled borders, record indebtedness, profiteering by the “professional” classes, and general social polarisation. This is the Eden from which the rude and licentious electorates have expelled us?

Face it. We FT readers had our decades in charge and we blew it for everyone but us. Time for us to do what we’ve been telling the rest of them to do for years, and suck it up. Or go forth and earn the respect that regains power.

Keith Craig, London SW7, UK

Although as ‏@webofevil points out “Cute, but relies on not acknowledging that the new populism contains not a single solution for the malaise he describes.”

Source: Twitter/@timothy_stanley