Brexit - The People have Spoken.

Brexit - The People have Spoken.

 

The people have spoken and the Government claims to have heard them. The main problem is that being heard is one thing but being listened to is something entirely different. I would have thought that Theresa May, the Prime Minister, would have received the message from her snap general election, that the ordinary people were not happy with the fact that she did not appear to be listening to their concerns.

 

The referendum, on the 26^th. June 2016, was a People’s Vote, where ordinary people had an opportunity to have a say in what was being done in their name. It was non political and the result would be final and acted upon. Out of the 46,501,241 people eligible to vote only 16,141,241 voted to Remain in the EU, that is only 34.7 percent of the electorate. Even in Scotland, where Nicola Sturgen claimed an outright majority, the 1,661,191 who voted Remain only represent 41.7 percent of the electorate. All that Remainers had to do was to get more than 50 percent of the electorate to vote NO and Brexit would have been dead and the last two years would have been entirely different, but they didn’t, and they couldn’t even win the vote on the day.

 

All MPs should be BREXITEERS as virtually NONE of them has the support of the majority of their constituents to support a Remain Agenda. Theresa May, MP for Maidenhead, current Prime Minister, had 44,086 votes Remain which was 53.9 percent on the day but only 43 percent of the constituents. Philip Hammond, MP for Runnymede and Weybridge, current Chancellor, had 20,259 vote Remain which was 45 7 percent on the day and 34.8 percent of the constituents. In his acceptance speech on Election Day he said “I will do my best to represent the interests of my constituents”, or the minority who support his personal agenda.  Anna Soubry, MP for Broxtowe, had 29,672 vote Remain which was 45.5 percent on the day but only 35.5 percent of the constituents, She couldn’t even convince her own constituents to support her point of view and apparently a number are so unhappy that she is not representing them or their views that they are trying to get her deselected.

 

The MPs who campaigned for, and voted for, Remain now have an obligation and responsibility to support the UK as it leaves the EU. Of course we welcome them using their knowledge and experience to ask questions and encourage debate to ensure that we leave with the best of terms, but at the end of the day they have no authority to try to reverse or block the outcome.

 

The question isn’t if we leave but how, and the best way to do it putting the interests of the UK and its people FIRST.

 

James Hancock                                                                                           

 

The Voice of a Common Man.                                                                    Ref: B83401

 

jh.acm@btinternet.com