IN the interest of trying not to clog-up your letters page arguing with Peter Clarke’s letter – Why vote to remain? (Keighley News, November 24) – I will keep my response as short as possible.

I voted to remain because I knew that Brexit would be handled shambolically by a Government that had already attacked the poor, the weak, the disabled and migrants – look at the wriggling out of the European Act of Human Rights that has already started.

I knew the process would take years and years, cost unimaginable sums and that by leaving (which must please the rest of the EU, who have always been fed-up of our whinging and little England mentality), we would isolate ourselves from our neighbours and leave ourselves at the mercy of China and the USA’s goodwill.

I am tired of arguing with people who still believe we do not make our own laws and think we do not elect our own MEPs, who think the EU is a dictatorship and who feel that dragging up two world wars and fishing quotas is a valid argument.

I subconsciously voted to remain because I wanted an optimistic, outward-looking future for the next generation, and felt the EU is a force for good in terms of climate change, regeneration and in putting the welfare of people before profit.

We live in times where those who would seek to divide us, exploit us or remove our dignity need to be kept in check, and by voting to leave we have left ourselves in a very vulnerable position indeed.

ANTONY SILSON Skipton Road, Keighley