I am delighted, on my 90th birthday, 14 June, to thank Tom Mahoney (Letters, 13 June) for reminding me of Wordsworth’s words “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven”. This expressed my feelings in 1945 as I listened alone to the radio, throughout the day, to the totally unexpected election results. I had been too young to have voted – the voting age was then 21. Last Friday bore some resemblance in feeling, though somewhat diluted by the failure of Labour to actually win, and obviously by regret that the second part of that quotation no longer applied.
Ailsa Land
Totnes, Devon
• To go back to basics, what does Brexit mean? No one seems to know. Is it today’s version of the 19th-century Schleswig-Holstein question? In the words of Lord Palmerston: “Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business, the Prince Consort, who is dead, a German professor, who has gone mad, and I, who have forgotten all about it.”
David Moore
Chesterfield
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