Tag Archives: democracy

Brexit and democracy

Brexit and democracy

Your correspondent Tom Jones misunderstands the reasons for the vote to leave the EU. Many readers will recall that possibly the greatest peace time prime minister of the 20th century, Clement Attlee, ...
Senior Moment – Apologies

Senior Moment – Apologies

Let’s get these out of the way. Last month there was a serious error on page 4 in the articles about the EU referendum. We got our Stay and Leave headers mixed up in the paragraph Main Risks. Thanks t ...
EU Decisions

EU Decisions

Dear Mr Young, Tina Foster is surely wrong to want our MP’s to decide our membership of the EU. It’s welcome that we’re being consulted and in the interests of democracy, we should h ...
Do we still have a true democracy?

Do we still have a true democracy?

Oh dear, I hear you say, not another political rant when we are facing all those pressures we get in the run up to a general election. No, this is different if only because it has no political party i ...