AN open letter to David Mowat MP.

Thank you for spending time recently to discuss Brexit at your surgery and also congratulations on your new position at Westminster.

I am writing briefly as a constituent again now that there has been a reasonable time to reconsider the situation and feelings about it.

Essentially my original thoughts are now shown to be justified.

The promises of leave campaigners were mainly lies (NB previous referenda have explicitly forbidden campaigners from stating mis-truths to sway the vote), the ridiculous complexities involved in withdrawal are now being shown and the complete lack of thinking by the leave camp regarding future plans is evident.

Furthermore although you give the standard government statement regarding ‘making a success of Brexit’ it is completely evident this is impossible and that our leaving the EU will be an economic and social disaster and will split our country as never before.

I understand the reluctance many MPs may have regarding upsetting those of their electorate who voted leave, but we have a parliamentary democracy, not democracy via referenda.

Only 37.4 per cent of the electorate voted leave and many of these were misled. I suggest that these MPs should have the strength of their convictions and do what is ultimately best for their constituents and their country.

I am hopeful that at least some senior government members will soon step up and say something along the lines of: ‘We recommend to the house that leaving the EU should not proceed’.

I feel from your previous actions that you do not disagree with most of what I write and now encourage you to show this openly because I also feel that those who do so will eventually be held in high regard.

ROD KING Lymm