Forcing a hard Brexit is not what we voted for

AS THE Brexit Bill lurches through the Lords, it ironic that the unelected chamber could actually be representing 48 per cent of the country.

It seems that they support the Remainers’ view that we need to stay in the single market, protect rights of EU nationals living here and continue a positive relationship with our continental neighbours.

While this might not seem democratic to some, neither is forcing through a hard Brexit that nobody voted for.

Our parliamentary houses should represent the views of all the people, not just the Prime Minister, and if it falls to the Lords to stand up to the Government after Labour’s failings as a proper form of opposition, then so be it.

If, in the final scenario, we see the people get a vote on the final Brexit deal, it will be a triumph for democracy in the UK. BOTH Nick Clegg [“Could the Lords give the people the right to vote on Brexit deal?”, Comment, February

21] and Tony Blair miss the point on Brexit.

The EU needs to change to bring the Euro block closer together. We didn’t want to be part of that, so David Cameron attempted to negotiate a different type of relationship. The deal he secured was poor and rightly declined by the electorate.

The only reason to vote again would be if the EU offered us a much better deal, which would certainly be in its interest in order to keep us in.

If Clegg and Blair are as clever as they think, they should try to influence the EU — not us.

IT ISN’T a surprise that the EU referendum has divided the country, but rather than having a unifying voice, we have Nick Clegg still on the Remain campaign.

Having once partnered David Cameron, he now seeks to have an alliance with Tony Blair. And then there is his cosying up to the House of Lords — the very institution he has lambasted in the past and has sought to eradicate.

Is there no stone Clegg wouldn’t lift to find an ally?

IN NICK Clegg’s article he writes about unelected Lords “giving the people their rightful say about their own future. Who could object to that?” Well, me for one.

The people have already been given their say about the future. Clegg and Blair should accept that the direction of travel has irrevocably changed as a result of the referendum.

I voted Remain but after that heartsinking moment of the result of the vote on June 24, I have firmly accepted the result and will support the Prime Minister.