I completely agree with what Steve Thompson says in his letter published (SA September 13). I would go further and suggest the coup he describes has already happened.

The smug sanctimonious posing as pseudo statesman affected particularly by Clegg and Cameron “we came together in coalition for the sake of the nation” does not mask two facts. Neither party had a majority and at no time was the electorate offered the choice of a coalition. We have a form of government that has no mandate for anything it does, those in charge are entirely illegitimate.

Those issues that exercise so many over such a long time (Europe and immigration policy) do so because here too no choice has been offered (the electorate has never been consulted and rightly or wrongly are unhappy with current policy).

As at national level, so also locally, SBC has no mandate and so is forced to constantly defend what it does, normally as some part of a grand plan which it clearly believes us poor plebs don’t understand but have to pay for.

Unfortunately we understand SBC and many of its leaders only too well. Sane people would look at all this and probably wish a plague on all their houses and sensibly refuse to get involved as we see in voter turnout figures.

Refusal to engage with these assorted self perpetuating and self interested “right honourables” only confirms in my mind the continuing good sense of the British citizenry.

Guy Green Old Town Swindon