High time politicians dealt with this gaping hole

DESPITE getting himself into an entertainingly illogical muddle, Richard Sanders (‘Should not be tied to EU import/export rules’, Letters July 25), does raise an important issue.

First he describes the EU as ‘not democratic’. Despite being a Remainer, I agree.

Then he declares that, by her stance on the Brexit negotiations, Nicky Morgan isn’t representing the majority of her voting constit- uents. Well, the fact that neither he nor Ms Morgan nor anyone else knows the opinions of Loughborough’s voters on this matter, added to the lack of any constitutional requirement for an MP to ‘represent’ these opinions anyway, does rather suggest that the British political system is also ‘not democratic’.

After all, this is a system that has failed to deliver any government supported by a majority of voters in the last 75 years. Oddly, it’s also the system in which Quitters insisted sovereignty should reside, because it would enable them to ‘take back control’. Er, do you feel in control yet, Mr Sanders?

The important issue, raised perhaps by accident, is that in the already-chaotic British political system the place of a referendum – how one is called, what majority is required, within how many years a similar vote may take place, whether the result supersedes the will of Parliament, etc etc – has not been thought through.

Isn’t it high time British politicians addressed this gaping hole? Or would they, like Mr Sanders, prefer to wade their way though one muddle after another?

Richard Guise Cradock Drive, Quorn