SUBSEQUENT to the referendum vote there has been very little good news nationally.

Quite the opposite, with the weakening of the pound on the financial market coupled with the increase of reported of hate crimes across the country.

One of my neighbours has a friend who is Romanian and lives in London and since Brexit won, she has been shouted at on the street to get out of our country on four separate occasions.

Recently, however, there was a gleam of hope.

Insofar as Mrs May was reigned in from her dictatorial tendencies by the High Court ruling, that MPs must be able to vote before she could trigger Article 50 to move out of Europe.

Previously her arrogant assumption was that she had personal authority to start the process without any regress to Parliament.

If the Supreme Court upholds the High Courts ruling, then there will be much more openness with the negotiations – Parliament then can scrutinise and evaluate what is on the table prior to thinking of whether to trigger or not Article 50.

The tragedy with the referendum was that it was driven, predominately by the right, at a level of emotional, reptilian fear.

Logic was sparse, even when 80 per cent of economists in this country predicted that if we left, then our economy would be seriously damaged.

Households would be poorer by 20 per cent.

It is difficult to understand that people would vote to make the country poorer?

What I think that Mrs May and her Brexit ministers fail to take into account is that 48 per cent, nearly half, of those who voted are opposed to leaving Europe full stop. Scotland, Northern Ireland and London had high figures to remain.

Finally, I fully support your correspond K Seager (letter, October 28) who called on the 54 per cent who voted to remain in this constituency, to work together.

For as he put it: “It is not too late to save our country”

John Marjoram

Stroud district councillor (Green, Trinity)