Madam,

When I first saw the headline ‘Why excuses not to have election?’ in your Letters page, 10 October, my immediate reaction was “Oh, another complaint about Brexit”. I was about to ignore the content - until my eyes alighted on the last sentence, “And don’t get me onto the Supreme Court”.

I would guess that Mr Samuel thinks that the unanimous judgement of our most senior judges was wrong and that Boris Johnson was right to attempt to prorogue Parliament so that it could not carry out its constitutional duty to discuss the actions of Government, thereby allowing a ‘no-deal’ Brexit at the end of October.

In the UK, a referendum is advisory, and should not (could not) be interpreted as the unchanging “will of the people”.

The simplistic question posed in the “Leave or Remain” referendum gave no indication of the terms on which a “Leave” decision would be implemented. Many people have confirmed that they voted “Leave” without enough information about the way that their lives would be affected and now wish to change their views.

The UK has no written constitution - it places the Supreme Court above the politicians of the day to ensure that they do not abuse their powers.

There are many problems in UK society, but few (if any) caused by our membership of the EU. Luckily, the majority of Ceredigion’ voters were not convinced by the “Leave” groups. I propose that an ‘Independent Ceredigion Movement’, or ‘Symudiad Ceredigion Annibynnol’, be started with the aims of remaining within the EU, inviting Her Majesty to continue as our monarch, setting up customs posts along the border with the rest of Wales, and retaining within the area all taxes at present paid to either Westminster or Cardiff. This would allow the ‘Will of the People’ of Ceredigion to be fully and democratically expressed, would it not, Mr Samuel?

Yours etc, John David, Llanfarian.

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