‘Idiots’ frustrating the will of the people

AFTER watching the day’s events unfurl and the final ignominy of the failure of the government to get an acceptance of their two proposed ‘Leave The EU’ documents I have to say that I truly do wonder what the politicians think that the results of the referendum meant?

In all honesty a group of 15-yearolds with their exercise books, pencils and access to the internet could have done better. During the course of the last few days I watched television from time to time and could not help but wonder at the posturing and egotistical political ramblings of some of the MPs in parliament as they debated the issue. Sure, it’s a complicated matter but many times I felt that the ignorance of some of their statements only proved to me that their sole objective was politically driven and nothing to do with the facts.

This is a very important and serious matter. The people of this country voted to leave the EU. What right do these idiots have to deliberately frustrate the will of the people by rejecting this result and electing instead to try and do some thing else? Is it possible that words like sedition, subversion and even anarchy should come to mind when the behaviour of the politicians is examined? We the people only have the power to respond to this childish and irresponsible behaviour, in a democracy, when the parliamentary elections come around. I firmly believe that if and when the details of who voted for what become clear, that the electorate will show their feelings by not putting back into power those who have served this union so badly during the last two years. Robert Smith, Earlsdon

Referendum not at all like an election

RICHARD Allen (Letters, January 14), in his anxiety to avoid anything that might be termed “academic spiel”, appears to have forgotten that there is a significant difference between a referendum (this referendum) and an election.

The one - the referendum- is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal, issue or question, whereas the other, an election, is a formal decision making process by which members of the population (voters) elect representatives, who have a finite time in which implement and test their policies and who can, after that time, be voted out of office.

In other words a referendum (if binding) usually commits not only the entire electorate of the day but all future electorates to a decision. An election doesn’t do that.

Do we not owe it to future generations to consider this? Or do we tell them go hang? Kevin Cryan, Radford

Plans all for more student housing

IN last Thursday’s edition of the Telegraph I noticed that in the planning applications from the city council most of the proposals were for either building or converting buildings into student accommodation. When does the time arrive that enough is enough because very shortly they will want to build on the precious green belt areas in the city centre?

John Hesketh, Bedworth