CONGRATULATIONS for allowing John Marjoram to operate in print in ‘maximum indignation’ mode (Letters SNJ Nov 16) – although nothing can better his sometimes manic ‘in person’ performances.

At the pre-referendum debate organised by UKIP in the Subs Room and hosted by the SNJ, John could be seen at his most animated whilst betraying his misguided opinions.

I will long remember him leaping to his feet and shouting at the panel, “You want to destroy the EU! You want to destroy the EU!”

I’m all for impassioned pleading, as long as that pleading is based on fact.

I don’t think anyone in the hall that night was gagging for anything to be destroyed – most were more than happy to see the EU continue with its unedifying modus operandi that will ensure its immolation.

What a majority of the audience (about 52 per cent I estimated) did not want, was to remain an integral part of John’s beloved EU whilst it leaked much of the UK’s not inconsiderable EU contributions for very little or no visible return.

Had it actually been seen for instance to help one of its desperate members – Greece – in its current period of great need, it might have garnered some grudging support.

But the scandalously underreported street disturbances taking place there this month (during Obama’s valedictory tour) are evidence of the anger felt by the Greek people at their abandonment by the EU.

Brussels is a pan-European parliament that has seen fit to ‘gift’ over three billion euros to Turkey (a totalitarian non-EU member) for services concerning migrants that have yet to produce a discernible benefit to anyone - except Turkey.

And John has the temerity to suggest that there is very little good news nationally!

Perhaps predictably John then derides Theresa May’s work with regard to Brexit negotiations - using terms such as ‘arrogant’ and ‘dictatorial’ - whilst accusing her of a lack of ‘openness’ (as he sees it) in the processes now required. Perhaps she has learned from the EU that there is nothing like secrecy to ensure that the confidential will of Parliaments will trump the will of the people any day of the week.

Jean-Claude Juncker’s tax avoidance schemes are one example, TTIP another.

Juncker’s plans for huge tax breaks for his ‘big business’ friends – graphically exposed by Molly Scott-Cato MEP (Tax crisis is big issue in Europe, SNJ 4.11.15) - showed the ruthless ‘dictatorial’ methods of The President of the European Commission.

No democracy for him – brave souls who exposed his plans before they could be employed (the Lux-Leaks outrage) were summarily arrested and charged.

Hopefully that type of ‘justice’ never arrives in the UK – although I suggest that only the Brexit vote saved us from it.

Negotiations for a new trade deal with America (TTIP) were conducted by the EU in conditions of Stasi secrecy.

I commend readers to access the facebook page of the independent Irish MEP, Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, to discover the extent of those unbelievable conditions.

Mr Flanagan’s page really is an education regarding the scandalous secrecy of his EU employer.

Only this week he questioned Mario Draghi – ex President of the European Bank – in open session regarding what he knew of the multi-billion euro liquidity breaches (an excess of 20 times the permitted levels!) in the business of the Uni-Credit Bank in Dublin in 2007.

Draghi has – nine years later - yet to even acknowledge the breaches.

Once again a whistleblower, Jonathon Sugarman in this instance, acting in the interests of working men and women and indeed of his country, has seen his career and life destroyed whilst EU fat-cats continue merrily on their self-aggrandising ways.

But John’s main source of pain is the positive result of the referendum itself; his main source of hope being the possibility of it being overturned in the Courts as a result of the ‘Miller’ challenge.

A Cambridge University Professor opined on BBC TV this week (24.11.16) that,”The recent Referendum Act delegated the In/Out decision to the people”.

Perhaps more importantly the then Prime Minister David Cameron delivered a speech at Chatham House 12 months ago on the referendum and its possible consequences.

Part of it reads thus, “You the British people will decide” and “Think very carefully, because this choice cannot be undone”.

These comments (and much else in the speech) beg profound questions.

Firstly these comments brook no argument: they are made in public by our Prime Minster no less, on a matter of the highest constitutional importance.

Our lives literally depend upon it.

His words are clear – “this choice cannot be undone”.

If the vote is indeed undone, then I suggest that the democracy which we thought we enjoyed is no more.

If the Court declares against the vote, then the unelected judges may just as well be moved to Parliament from where they in future will rule.

The second point is equally troubling as it is important.

Why has this speech by Cameron never once been alluded to by our ‘free’ media in the five months since the referendum?

This fact reeks of a conspiracy of silence; a conspiracy redolent of the EU in which John Marjoram would have us remain.

Roger Gough

UKIP Stroud