Brexit is nothing like the Reformation

SIR – Professor John Charmley’s “Britain’s latter-day Reformation” (Comment, July 29) is at best a “Remoaner’s” rhetorical exercise, at worst a grotesquely misleading piece of remain propaganda when he states that “the old Protestant suspicion of Catholic Europe has simply been replaced by dislike of the EU and Brussels”.

Yet Henry VIII rejected the spiritual authority of the Catholic Church and the Bishop of Rome; Brexit rejects the social and political predominance of authoritarian bureaucrats and unelected and irresponsible judges. Henry pursued serial monogamy contrary to the teachings of the Church; Brexiteers reject the power of an unChristian European Union which lusts (literally) to promote, here as everywhere, more sexual licence of every flavour. Despite the intentions of its Catholic founders, the Union now stands – as its Charter proclaims – for a European civilisation without Christianity.