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Politics is a dirty game

AS WE await the pleasure of the Justices of the Supreme Court to determine whether their friends and colleagues in the High Court were right to intervene in the matter of the Government’s ability to invoke Article 50 without reference to Parliament, it might be a good time to remind ourselves of the nature of EU Referendum.

The Bill presented to and debated and voted on by a Parliamentary majority of six to one required a referendum to be held on the question of the UK’s continued membership of the European Union before the end of 2017.

It did not contain any requirement for the UK Government to implement the results of the referendum, nor set a time limit by which a vote to leave the EU should be implemented.

Instead, this type of referendum known as pre-legislative or consultative, enabled the electorate to voice an opinion which then influences the Government in its policy decisions.

The referendums held in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1997 and 1998 were also pre-legislative or consultative, where opinion was tested before legislation was introduced.

While the UK does not have constitutional provisions which would require the results of a referendum to be implemented I think the vast majority of people who took part in the Referendum vote had little, if any, doubt that the result would be accepted by Parliament and the wider public as representing the will of the people.

That the subsequent result is being questioned in terms of ‘what did it really mean?’ demonstrates the lengths which Remainers will go to subvert the will of the majority.

Politics is indeed a dirty game

DES MORGAN

Caraway Drive, Swindon

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Reverse those policies

IN REPLY to Jeff Adams (November 9) he does not realise that the current austerity policies are necessary because Britain has the worst trade deficit in the world.

The Government has to borrow a huge amount every week to balance the books and the National Debt has now reached £1.7trillion.

Donald Trump has been elected as President of the USA because the working class in America are rebelling against the negative effects of globalisation, as are the poor people in Britain.

Globalisation grinds down the wages of the working class and has created the same sort of problems in the USA as it has in Britain.

It is manufacturing industry that creates wealth. The ruling classes in the USA and Britain have ignored the problems of industry for the last 30 years. Manufacturing industry must be supported if it is to thrive.

This will require a total reversal of the current industrial polices of all the major political parties in Britain.

STEVE HALDEN

Beaufort Green, Swindon

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Shocked by US result

I ALMOST choked on my cornflakes on Wednesday morning, when I saw on the news that Donald Trump was the President Elect of the free world.

I don’t pay much attention to American politics, but I surmised Hilary Clinton had a lot more experience. I also considered Donald’s rhetoric a bit too strong.

Like the Brexit vote, the American bookmakers and pollsters got it all wrong once again.

On reading the newspapers it appeared that Donald would put us first in the queue for business and exports, the exact opposite to Obama.

Donald considers Britain a great ally, Obama returned Churchill’s statue.

Donald’s mother was Scottish giving him a 50 per cent British bloodline.

Next I read that wee Sturgeon, who had made scathing attacks on Donald Trump, had made a grovelling phone call and congratulated him.

Reading on, Juncker and his cohorts were not happy with Donald’s victory, and expected things to get harder for the Disunion regarding trade with America.

Apparently the American establishment and liberal elite, as well as the show business luvvies, had egg on their faces.

Does it remind anyone of a similar voting pattern on June 23, where the voice of the people spoke out for democracy?

Who knows what will happen when President Trump gets behind that Oval desk and realises the great responsibility laid upon his shoulders?

The fate of the human race may one day depend on his judgement. I pray that day will never come.

He may turn out a better president than many of his enemies expected. I sincerely hope so for all our sakes.

BILL WILLIAMS

Merlin Way, Covingham, Swindon

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God bless Donald Trump

AS A UKIP politician myself who actively campaigned at the 2015 General Election and more recently the EU Referendum, I always knew that the American people, who shared similar problems of stagnation in Great Britain, would rally behind Donald Trump as the next president.

For my small yet important role in this iconic moment in American history, I wrote many letters to the media and on BBC Radio in comment in view of the unwarranted, scurrilous left-wing attacks that were directed towards our good friends in the Republican Party.

I am looking forward very much now to the Inauguration on the White House Lawn in January 2017.

God Bless America and President Elect Donald J Trump and his most charming wife Melania, the next First Lady.

PHILIP WINTER (UKIP)

Southmead Road, Filton Park

Filton, South Gloucestershire

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Serve us? Dream on

SO, ONCE again, an election has not gone the way the “career politicians” have wanted.

They should now take on board that we, the public, are now getting fed up with their self-centredness and start to do what they have been elected for, which is to serve their constituents and not themselves.

Just a thought.

I know I am dreaming.

GERRY TAYLOR

Newcastle Street, Swindon