National vote

Views that are no more valid today than they were many months ago.

Such views, ie the role of individual MPs and the treatment of minority views have, of course, been repeated ad nauseam by the Remain camp. Presumably on the basis that if they are repeated often enough they will be accepted.

Perhaps I can address his misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the referendum count process.

First of all it was a national referendum and the only count that mattered was the total count for the UK as a whole. How individual pockets or areas of the UK voted has no standing.

So whether or not the voting returns were undertaken by constituency or local council area is irrelevant.

The only reason that hundreds of separate small counts were undertaken by constituency or local council area is because a routine vote counting system was already in place to carry out the returns.

These hundreds of smaller counts were then forwarded to a national control to be combined and give the required result for the UK as a whole.

The only body which represents the UK as a whole is the UK Parliament at Westminster. And it is that body which should be implementing the democratic vote of the UK electorate as a whole.

The idea that individual MPs should pretend to act on behalf of individual areas is a nonsense.

Particularly when we all know that it is simply an excuse for the MP to act on behalf of his/her own wishes. Where would it all end?

What about the voters in Rudheath or Barnton, or even more to the point what about the views of the voters in Darwin Street on Castle?

Maybe these locations voted 97 per cent leave and three per cent remain.

It was a national vote and should be dealt with at a national level. It is too high a level for the normal constituency role of individual MPs or others such as Nicola Sturgeon.

The vote was national and the people have had their say.

Don Micklewright Weaverham