Death of democracy

DOES anyone share my distress at seeing Hong Kong’s young people risking their lives for democracy?

I fear their efforts are in vain. At the same time they’ve been fighting for self- determination, our politicians have trashed democracy and taken away any belief that the average person has any influence over the nation’s future.

In the country that gave birth to magna Carta, the elite have rejected the legitimacy of the majority Brexit vote. The citizens of one of the world’s most advanced cultures can’t expect to influence the way this country is governed or to make choices about how we live.

There is no hope or purpose in the young people of Hong Kong fighting for any control over their democratic rights or their way of life. The system they admire so much, and which guides their thinking, is corrupted and meaningless in Britain.

The Prime minister and his Government are being prevented from carrying out the expressed wishes of the majority.

we don’t have much more control than those who live in Hong Kong. we’ve seen how contemptuously the referendum vote has been treated and we know that any future vote has lost its certainty of being treated with respect.

someone needs to tell the young idealists of Hong Kong that in the absence of idealistic thinking among politicians, there is no democracy. JACQUELINE SMART,

Weybridge, Surrey. HONG Kong is fighting so hard for democracy while our Parliament is trying to give ours away.

PAUL BRAZIER, Kingswood, Glos.