All falling to bits in a one-party state

WHAT clearer indication could there be of the breakdown of our democracy than our PM telling the Tory conference that Wales and Scotland cannot opt out of Brexit before she tells Parliament?

What better way to undermine what May calls “the precious union between the four nations of our United Kingdom” than seeking to exclude the devolved governments from negotiations with the EU?

What more proof could there be that this referendum, in which only 37% of the electorate voted for

Brexit, was always about divisions within the Tory Party rather than the national interest now that her party has morphed in to Ukip?

Unless there is a concerted effort from the devolved governments of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to challenge the loss of 40 MPs through the proposed boundary changes the Tory project of a oneparty state will be complete and so will be the destruction of our welfare state safety net and our NHS.

We have a new PM, but Cameron’s folly of a referendum does not amount to a democratic mandate to continue his government of Essex Man. Margaret Phelps Raisdale Gardens, Penarth