NEVER has there been a stranger example of a self-inflicted injury that the one inflicted by the Welsh on themselves. It is incontestable that Wales as a whole receives more from the EU than its contribution via the budget. 
That will now cease and they will have to plead with bored administrations in Westminster. 
They believed lies – lies which are admitted by the Brexiters now they safely have their result: the UK’s contribution is not £350 million a week and any savings will not be spent on the NHS. 
The voters demonstrated a pitiful ignorance of how EU institutions actually work, claiming that UK laws are being struck down by bureaucrats but being unable to think of an actual example. 
They worried about EU immigrants, somehow mixing them up with Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans even though it was the UK which had the power to control the latter. 
Now the best they can hope for is a Norway-type association with the Single Market with which they have to abide by EU law but no longer have any influence. 
Or they can follow Michael Gove out of all association with the EU and choose the road to serfdom. Injury invites pity – but not in this case.

Martyn Vaughan
Rogerstone
Newport