Implement the people’s choice

Sir, – Alister Rankin (Letters, September 18), dissatisfied with relatively undemocratic institutions now ordering our political affairs, is largely right in thus branding the House of Lords, which is supposed to add elder statesmen’s (and stateswomen’s) mature judgments to improve on the deliberations of the Commons.

He also endorses the republican movement’s dissatisfaction with the UK monarchy.

In his previous letter, he had called for a re-run of the EU referendum of 2016 but, if he hopes to enhance our UK democracy, the EU, no exemplar of that, is not at all the solution.

Its unelected bureaucracy, the European Commission – its real policy formulator and enforcer – renders its parliament virtually a mere talking shop, and whose history of calling for repeat referenda until the “right” result is recorded has overturned several nations’ democratically-reached verdicts.

Alister Rankin implies that we have too many politicians, with a flavour of arbitrary, relatively undemocratic decisions.

In that, I agree fully and seek to shed the EU’s overruling diktats.

Therefore, the British people’s choice in 2016 was correct and should be being promptly implemented to enhance our democracy by restoring our sovereignty, so as to end our very unsatisfactory, costly membership of the EU. It is, essentially, an undemocratic, imperialistic protection racket.

Dr Charles Wardrop. 111 Viewlands Road West,

Perth.