Why Leave do not want second vote

BEFORE lecturing us on democracy, Alan Piper should consider the following report in the Daily Mirror of 16 May 2016 (a month before the EU referendum).

A prominent Leave campaigner was interviewed and talked about what would happen should there be a narrow victory for Remain, insisting a small defeat for [the] Leave camp would be “unfinished business” and he predicted the pressure would grow for a rerun of the ballot.

“In a 52/48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way.”

Who was that politician who so accurately predicted how close the vote would be? Why, none other than Mr Piper’s then party leader, Nigel Farage.

Why should the Leave campaign fear a second referendum? If Brexit is still such a wonderful idea, they will win again. The reason they do

not want a second referendum is plain and it has nothing to do with democracy, or the will of the people, just the opposite.

They know that if there were to be a second referendum, the public will be faced with the truth about Brexit as we now know it. Leave could not again lie, deceive and mislead the public. £350,000,000 per week for the NHS? A deal will be the easiest thing in the world?

The reason no Leave supporter can contemplate a second referendum is because they believe that they would lose this time.

The appalling conclusion to be drawn from that is that if the Brexiteers refuse to hold a second referendum because they believe, or fear, that Remain would now win, then they know that they are leading this country over the precipice against the will of the people.

Is that what you call democracy Mr Piper?

JOHN WESENCRAFT,

Ponteland