Letters | 7 July 2016

Junior elitists

Sir: In response to Andrew Peters’s reminder that in many cultures it is the older and more experienced whose views are respected, I am stunned by the social media tsunami of self-regard shown by so many apparently well-educated young people in the wake of what they see as an adverse referendum result (Letters, 2 July).

I have heard many of them vehemently expressing a sense of betrayal by their elders and, not a few times, by those less educated than themselves. Do they not realise that they are already sounding like junior members of the self-serving, self-appointed elite, the very people whose blinkered arrogance led directly to Brexit’s triumph? Too often they appear to have no real sense of history, in terms of what was so hard won by our ancestors, not least universal suffrage, innocence until proven guilty, secure borders and the right to live by the secular laws and Christian ethics of the land, our land, in peace.