Politicians not really experts

IN his recent letter Richard Little cast doubt of the validity of the EU referendum. In fact a referendum is democracy in its purest form. One man, one vote and every vote counting.

All previous referendums have been acted upon - why should this be any different?

This last one in June merely redressed the betrayal of the 1975 one when we were told that we were only joining a common market. They knew all along that it really meant having unelected foreign eurocrats making our laws and running our lives, as exposed in the subsequent Maastricht treaty. There should have been a referendum before the Maastricht treaty was signed.

If the Heath government had told the truth in the first place then there is no way the country would have voted ‘yes’.

The June 23 referendum was in a government manifesto, and David Cameron spent tens of millions of pounds on it, and stated in writing to every single household that the government would implement our decision. That gives it validity.

Some MPs see themselves as public masters and not public servants. They should be removed at the next election if they will not represent the majority of their constituents.

It is significant that not one person in the media said it was advisory before the referendum - otherwise not many would have voted if they thought the MPs would make the decision anyway. This was only brought up by the Remainers after they lost.

The referendum has more validity than even a general election result. Look at the last one, UKIP had four million votes, more than the total SNP vote. So 12 per cent of the electorate end up with one MP, and 4.7 per cent of the electorate end up with 56 MPs! Where is the justice?

It is mainly the older people who have wisdom that comes with age and experience. Many MPs were not born when we had the common market referendum so they should listen to those who have lived through the EU dictatorship and vindictiveness for 40 years.

Just because someone is a politician does not make them an expert.

Ronnie Quick, Burnley

£2m reasons to celebrate

I WRITE to share the fantastic news about our charity partnership with Royal Mail which has raised a staggering £2million.

Over the last two years, staff at Royal Mail have been busy raising money for the Stroke Association and every penny was match funded by the company.

Every year there are more than 100,000 strokes in the UK.

That is around one stroke every five minutes.

Stroke can be devastating.

It has a massive and sudden impact and there are over 1.2 million stroke survivors in the UK who are rebuilding their lives after stroke.

The money raised by Royal Mail will provide up to 10,000 life after stroke grants, which can help restore confidence and enable stroke survivors to regain some independence.

Stroke survivors and their families across the north west can find more information on the grants service by visiting stroke.org.uk/grants.

I would like to say thank you to everyone at Royal Mail for their time, commitment and support.

Together we can and we will conquer stroke.

Juliet Bouverie, Stroke Association

Girls must have been on lash

WHAT is it with all of these silly high-definition eyebrow trends?

Some look hilarious, I have to now stifle a snigger as I walk along East Lancashire’s streets at the eyebrows I see, and often from half-a-mile away.

Please ladies, if you’re going to follow this trend, do it properly.

Or put glasses on before you look in the mirror to go out because you obviously don’t see the hilarious eyebrows we do.

Sorry, but just saying. It looks like you’ve been on the lash.

Jim Jones, Blackburn