Open letter to the
government of the United Kingdom and prime minister
Johnson
We demand: give
us a ballot on your brexit deal and/or, even
better, rapidly push through a law to enable an
agreed, reasonably large, number of
citizen-electors to obtain a referendum on any
public matter, policy or law.
Wallace-Macpherson*
Guildford,
Surrey
December 16th 2019
Open letter to the government of the United Kingdom
and prime minister Johnson.
"Above all, we Conservatives will respect the democratic
will of the people." (1)
Good.
So, act accordingly in the matter of UK - EU relations.
Recent surveys strongly suggest that many millions of
citizens favour having a referendum about a "brexit"
deal. That is the "democratic will" of the people, now
that we know how "brexit" will look. You
know full well that the 2016 referendum was only
advisory, a consultation of the British people: Your own
attorney general recently affirmed this in the Commons
(see Hansard). The number of people
supporting another referendum is similar or may exceed
the number who voted Conservative in last week's
election.
Your manifesto also includes a promise to improve
democracy by "devolving power to people and
places across the UK" (2). The power of citizens to
instigate a binding referendum on any public matter is
an important democratic reform supported by around seven
out of ten British adults.
So, Mr. Johnson, our highest public servant of the
day, et al, either give us a ballot on your brexit
deal and/or,
even better,
rapidly push through a law to enable an agreed,
reasonably large, number of citizen-electors to
obtain a referendum on any public matter, policy or
law.
1. The Conservative and Unionist Party Manifesto
2019, page 3.
2. ibid, page 28.
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*
Director, Psycho-Social and Medical Research PSAMRA
Guildford and Berlin
Founder
Campaign for direct democracy in Britain
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