The people weren’t consulted on Brexit
DEAR Editor, Bill Platt wonders “Where has democracy gone?” ( Birmingham Post, December 20).
Bill and other readers should have known that when Conservative and Labour politicians agreed in parliament to accept the vote of the people, it transferred sovereignty to the people to make law which contradicted the finding of the Supreme Court which had ruled on January 24 that parliament was sovereign to make law.
At a stroke, parliament replaced representation with delegation, representative democracy with direct democracy which in doing so brought mob rule to the streets of the UK and chaos in parliament.
It is time, long overdue, for people to understand that the exercise conducted on June 23, 2016 could only have been a survey because it was conducted outside of the representative rule of law and other reasons.
Referendums, however, are about the constitution and are only held when parliament votes to amend the constitution while parliament is sitting.