Cage fighting

Graham Hay is clearly of the view that a coalition-type government is better than one composed of MPS from one party (28 March).

Anything else is “a meaningless incantation”, as such a government would probably be elected by less than a majority of votes.

Indeed, that is probably the case, but I fail to see why that is any less valid than one composed of MPS tied into a coalition with other parties the voters did not vote for, passing legislation that their party has to accede to in order to be in government.

Democracy in the case of the UK means being ruled by a government elected by British citizens alone, which makes laws without interference by outside, over-arching, multinational bodies like the EU which, as he well knows, is not capable of initiating any laws itself, other than those it is directed to act upon by the unelected and unaccountable Commissioners.

The House of Lords merely advises and reviews, based upon the centuries of accumulated experience of all parties represented (and many of none) in Government and Opposition.

The imperfect system under which the UK has been an EU member does not alter the fact that we have been in a cage for over 40 years. It may have been a gilded cage in many ways, but it has still been a cage.

For some, freedom to make our own way in the world, as we have done for centuries is frightening. For many of us, however, it is long overdue.

ANDREW HN GRAY Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh