This campaign on issues over Brexit opens with “As your
constituent, I want you to know that I believe that the Brexit deal now being
proposed will be a disaster for our country.”
For me this is wrong on so many levels: we don’t know the
deal for a start! Also whilst there are those who focus solely on finances the
vast majority of my mail bag is from constituents imploring me to ensure we
leave the EU so that we can take back control of our borders, fishing grounds
and money – even if that means the UK is worse off. I don’t think that will be
the case and every forecast post referendum saying otherwise has consistently
been completely wrong. I have no reason to rely on these reports and neither
does anyone else.
The only issue that will “cloud our democracy” will be if
the majority, having won the referendum in what was described by all sides
during the campaign as defining and definitive now see the democratic process
overthrown by those who want to have second go because the masses “ did not
understand what they were doing…” Elitist nonsense and I will have none of it.
As the negotiations continue we will see just how awkward
the EU become in the hope we might buckle and if I needed any further proof
that we need out of the inevitable United States of Europe then now I have
it.
I have written more on this for the few who are in touch
wanting a second go at voting and copy it below:
I backed a
people’s vote in 2016. Our constituency voted by almost 2-1 in favour of leave,
the biggest margin in Cornwall.
I voted to leave
and I believe my job as a parliamentarian is to get on with delivering the
results of the people’s vote.
I am committed
to delivering the results of the referendum, nationally and locally, by
ensuring that we leave the EU on 29 March 2019. It is vital for our democracy
we respect the decision the British people made in 2016’s referendum and
deliver what the people voted for.
Additionally,
during the election campaign last year I stood on a very clear message that I
would respect the result of the referendum and work to deliver Brexit. I
received a clear mandate in that election receiving and biggest vote and
biggest majority ever seen in the constituency.
I, along with
vast majority of my colleagues in Parliament, are of the opinion that the
referendum on the UK’s membership of European Union was a clear and fair vote,
demonstrating that we as a nation are in favour of leaving the European Union.
Those suggesting that somehow people did not understand what they were voting
for are both patronising and disrespectful.
I do not support
another referendum. Not only would it not be respecting the 2016 vote, which
was a people’s vote, it would also undermine the negotiating position. It would
also cause further delay and uncertainty.
The vast
majority of people tell me they simply want us to get on with things and leave.
Businesses in particular want to know, as soon as possible what the future will
hold.
It is doubtful
there would even be time for another referendum within the time available but
even if it could be shoehorned into the schedule, the delay and certainty would
be the last thing we need.
Of course there
is also the question that if we held another referendum, if there were people
unhappy with the result of that one, would they then want another one, and so
on until they got a result they were happy with? That isn’t how democracy
works.
I am a democrat
and I believe that in order to safeguard our democracy we need to implement the
will of the nation, as expressed in the results of the referendum, by leaving
the European Union.
Every week my
post bag burgeons with constituents seeking assurance that we will have a full
and meaningful Brexit as compared with just a very few who of alternative view.
Your concerns
over the future prosperity of the UK is in stark contrast to the economic data
thus far and that is before we have left the EU.
We all want to
protect our democracy and that means accepting the outcome of the ballot box. I
intend to do just that and continue to strive for Brexit.
