ROBERT Whitworth in his letter – Where’s the tragedy? (Keighley News, November 24) – makes a fair point about the British political system being “a dictatorship by the political elite”. But isn’t this what the Brexit Leavers object to in the EU? So it will be out of the frying pan and into the fire.

I have a friend who has his own Brexit-type situation. He and his wife have a huge mortgage and credit card debt. They have to pay large amounts to the care homes where their parents, aged and with dementia, stay. Their newly adult children, still living at home, can only get jobs with varying hours, no security, and no sick or holiday pay.

My friend has a reasonable job and pay and is just about keeping his head above water. But he is increasingly annoyed and frustrated at the demands made on him and the controls imposed upon him by his bosses and colleagues. He has decided therefore to chuck his job in. He wants to set up on his own and be his own man.

His wife totally disagrees with him. ‘What are you actually going to do?’ she asks. Something will turn up, he replies. So, a wing and a prayer, she says, and there’ll still be other people’s rules and regulations you’ll have to comply with. Better the devil you know.

I personally think my friend is going through a midlife crisis, is being totally irresponsible and taking a huge gamble. He’s vain and, as his stomach muscles begin to sag, he puts his whole family at risk. That, to me, is Brexit.

JOHN ROBERTS Lower Scholes Oakworth