A Draft Letter To My MP On BREXIT Responsibilities

September 2019

I need to inform you of my general disgust at the behaviour of a significant number of MPs in the recent past.  On the 23^rd June 2016 voters were asked:

“Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?”

Around 17.4 million people voted to leave with 16.1 million voting to remain a member of the EU.  Voters were not asked if they wanted to leave with or without a deal, consequently no MP can assert that people who voted to leave actually prefer to leave with, or without a deal.

Please do not adopt an attitude on behalf of voters with respect to any mechanism of leaving the EU.

Prior to and after the Referendum, supporters of remain made a lot of noise about how damaging it would be to leave.  Their cataclysmic predictions made prior to the Referendum failed to materialise after the Referendum and the same people are shouting loudly about the next apocalypse awaiting the UK after leaving the EU with no-deal.  As before, these predictions are over-exaggerated and designed to scare people (including yourself) into avoiding a no-deal exit; when the ultimate intention is to prevent the UK from leaving at all.

Your responsibility as an MP is to implement the direct, democratic result of the Referendum, which is for the UK to leave the EU.

You should not be influenced by what is effectively propaganda (Project Fear) designed to reverse the result of the Referendum.

You do not have a mandate to modify the Referendum result by insisting that the only way the UK should leave the EU is via a deal.

Your constituents are not your mandate, because the result of over 33 million votes vastly supersedes your constituents.  This is a national issue, not a local one.

The Government negotiated an exit agreement with the EU, which MPs have rejected multiple times causing the resignation of the Prime Minister.

What does this tell us?

It tells us three things (amongst others):

1. The EU’s current requirements for an exit agreement were not acceptable to a majority of MPs.
2. Re-negotiation of the contentious issues in the draft exit agreement is unlikely to be successful, but a final effort is warranted.  Multiple efforts are not.
3. MPs who, for whatever reason, work to prevent a no-deal exit are actually preventing the Government from implementing the democratic result of the Referendum.  This is almost akin to a coup, whereby a Government is prevented from undertaking its legal, democratic powers. These MPs have not provided any positive resolutions in order to achieve a negotiated exit, primarily because they personally do not want to leave the EU.

As you are probably aware the majority of MPs who voted in the Referendum voted for remain, contrary to the result from all 33 million voters.

After the Referendum, a majority of all MPs confirmed they support the result of the vote and therefore would support the Government in delivering the exit from the EU.

We now know that this was lip-service and a majority of MPs have completely forgotten their democratic responsibility to voters and to the Government.  The new, young (inexperienced?) and apparently naive leader of the Liberal Democrats is openly acting in an anti-democratic manner by promoting the opposite of the Referendum result, whilst dressing this up as being democratic!

And you wonder why people have such low regard for politicians?

If you are a member of the Government and have voted against your own Party in order to prevent a no-deal exit; you are also acting anti-democratically by delaying or (the most-likely intention) preventing the UK’s exit from the EU.

Therefore, you are no longer fit to be a member of the Government or your party.

If you cannot understand that a direct mandate from 17.4 million people over-rides your own personal beliefs, then you should not be an MP.

De-selection of these anti-democratic MPs is the bare minimum, so that others with a proper understanding of their responsibility to the country (not themselves or some alternative ideology), plus proper allegiance to governing; can come forward.

There is no valid explanation, or excuse, for preventing a Government implementing the direct mandate from 17.4 million people.

Your own personal beliefs are subservient to the mandate to leave the EU; please do not impose your personal beliefs in Parliament in the mistaken understanding you are being democratic; you are not.

Please ensure you support your country first and foremost by working to implement the democratic vote to leave the EU in whatever form the Government is able to establish.

If you cannot support the Government in implementing the mandate to leave (with no conditions attached) and feel you have to oppose this, then you no longer respect the majority of voters in this country and you should resign as an MP.