Why should we vote for such an unruly mob?

Give RAF vegans the boot

Peter Hitchens was spot-on in his column last week (‘I used to love Elections. But now I say a plague on all their houses’). He advocates not voting, because politicians simply ignore us.

While a blanket refusal of the electorate to vote would be impossible to achieve, a campaign to include ‘None of the above’ as an option on all ballots might succeed if enough people could be encouraged to spoil their papers by writing it legibly on them.

If the number of such papers exceeded those for the candidate with the most votes, there would be a good case to argue for a fresh ballot with new runners.

Anthony Smith, Dartford, Kent

I have always voted, whether that is for local councils or in General Elections. But for the first time I am considering not voting.

This is a very serious issue, as we have been given the freedom under a democratic system, and I have felt it is my duty to take advantage of this privilege.

My decision stems from the behaviour of our MPs. When it is Election time, they appear wise, serious and normal. But when they go to the Commons, they become unruly hooligans. They do not care for any rational debates or for the voters and our communities. It is disgusting.

What changes these apparently sensible people into hooligans? Being elected. It is sad and it

Can someone please explain why the Ministry of Defence is offering ‘vegan-approved clothing’ to RAF personnel?

The problem I have with this logic is that vegans are against any form of animal abuse; so why then choose to join the military, where personnel are trained to must change if we are to give Parliament respect again. D. Glyn Jones,

Beaumaris, Anglesey

Based on the current climate, if you don’t like the outcome of an Election or a referendum, the ruling class says you no longer have to accept it – because if you don’t agree with them, your vote doesn’t count. That used to be called fascism. If Britain remains in the EU, any future Election or referendum result will be without merit. Why should the voting public accept results from now on if Britain sets the precedent of overturning the Brexit vote?

Susan Graney, Virginia, USA

Those pundits rubbishing the Brexit Party as a lost cause need to remember that at the last European elections, they won a huge number of votes for their elected MEPs, leaving the Tory kill human enemies? Am I missing something here?

Eric Lacey, Wedmore, Somerset

So, as a taxpayer, I pay for our vegan pilots to have non-leather boots? I assume their own shoes, belts and bags are all non-leather?

Ron Coleman, Dorchester

Party as also-rans. Pundits should stop treating the public like fools. We’ve just had three years of that from the last batch of the ‘people’s representatives’.

Gerald Gannaway, Bristol

If I had a pound for every time I have voted for the Green Party and people have said to me ‘It’s a wasted vote’, I’d be a rich woman. The only wasted vote is one not cast. Green issues are so vital for the UK right now. Fossil fuels are destroying our planet. Josephine Drury,

Buckley, Flintshire

Nigel Farage has an undoubted talent in championing a single cause. Post-Brexit, it would be great if he could lead a charge to overhaul the Commons and the Lords. There is a far bigger appetite for this than was the case for the Brexit referendum.

Gerry Doyle, Liverpool