Editor,

John Jenkins (31 October) is correct that it is Labour Party policy to have a second Brexit referendum (you could call it the third, as there was a referendum on leaving the EC in 1975). That would take place after an incoming Labour government had negotiated a better Withdrawal Agreement with the EU.

I am sure that this Labour policy was democratically arrived at, but things have moved on since then, as things always do, and also there are bound to have been inaccuracies in the ways that both sides of the argument were presented. Also some people have been born, some people have died, some people have become 18. So perhaps the Labour Party could be asked to take the decision again?

That was irony of course, but do you see what I mean? Without losers’ consent democracy evaporates, and that is truly scary.

If this particular group of influential people can prevent a democratic decision they don’t like from being implemented, then what other decisions might be blocked or reversed by which other groups of influential people? A General Election perhaps? Overruled by billionaires, or generals, or both? The precedent will have been set.

Our rules-based society will have melted away, leaving us entirely at the mercy of robber barons. Even more at their mercy than we already are.

I will not support or encourage that, no matter what political party it comes from.

Dave Bradney, Joppa, Llanrhystud.

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