YP Letters: MPs will pay price for presuming they know best on Brexit

THE Article 50 vote in the House of Commons shows the ordinary populace of the UK, with devastating clarity, those MPs who respect the results of the democratic vote delivered by the British people in the EU referendum, and those MPs who consider the opinions of the majority of British people to be of no consequence whatsoever.

The consequences for those MPs ignoring the wishes of the ordinary folks in their particular constituencies will be either deselection or defeat, come the next General Election.

Ordinary folk in our country do not take kindly to the cocky and insulting presumption by those MPs who voted against the Brexit Bill that they know what is good for their voters better than their voters know themselves.

The arrogance of these MPs is astounding and merely demonstrates that they do not represent the views of the majority of their voters but only their own grossly mistaken personal opinions. To these MPs, it would appear that democracy is of no importance whatsoever, particularly as their own views take precedence over the opinions of the vast majority of their constituents.

Come the next election fortunately, many of these MPs will be defeated and lose their obscene salaries and their ego boosting privileges as they pay the price for ignoring the vast majority of British voters.

From: Dr Scott Marmion, York.

LABOUR’S Rachael Maskell’s vote against triggering Article 50 is not an exercise in democracy (The Yorkshire Post, February 2).

Arguing that nobody voted to leave the single market is invalid. This indeed was not on the ballot paper but nor was there anything requiring the voter to explain their choice.

Even these uncertainties do not justify voting against the Bill. If the Government brings back a deal that is not to her liking in any regard it is then, not now, that MPs should consider how to vote.

We must hold our MPs to account for defying the popular vote, or, to quote Plato, the “heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself”.

From: Trev Bromby, Sculcoates Lane, Hull.

OVER 17 million Brits cast votes against the EU gravy train of power. If Article 50 had been put in motion, minus dithering time, after the June 23 vote, we would not be afflicted by the above by the Parliamentary dither and delay.