This is the reality of our democracy

YOU have recently published two letters from Brexit supporters both more or less maintaining that MPs and MEPs should be deselected for not voting for Mrs May’s Brexit stance.

Could you please educate these correspondents as to what a democracy like ours is.

In our representative parliamentary democracy, our MPs (as equally our MEPs) are not delegates of their electorate.

Whether their constituents voted leave or remain, they are not bound by their vote.

They represent their constituency, but are free to follow their own conscience, and vote in parliament according to their own judgement, and in the best interests of their country, as they see it.

If their electors don’t like the way they see it, they can always vote them out at the next general election.

And please, also, educate them that the referendum was deliberately chosen by the then government to be advisory only, not mandatory.

That is, the public could not give a directive to their MPs.

Our MPs are still legally and constitutionally free to vote down any of Mrs May’s policies – all of which she has made up since the referendum, and were never in any referendum manifesto at the time.

GW Thomas Crickhowell