In response to Councillor Cox's letter of Wednesday 'Another Brexit vote?'

I beg to differ from his Brexit point of view. He states that 17.4 million people voted to leave, which is correct, but lets not forget that 24.6 million people did NOT vote to leave the EU. almost nine million used their democratic right to abstain whilst the rest voted to remain. Therefore the majority of the British electorate did NOT vote to leave.

Let's put this into some political spin for Councillor Cox — 17.4 million represents 37% of the electorate (again showing that the British people did not vote to leave), whilst that same 17.4 million only represents 27% of the population — again thus showing that the people did not vote to leave.

Also has he not seen the latest independent polls of the those who stated the voted Brexit and for a large number they are now regretting their decision as they either used it as a petition against the Government and they thought remain would win, and with the debacle of the currency and the sudden price rise of many goods and commodities, which were warned about, people are feeling the pinch and realise that they were lied to about Brexit.

Councillor Cox also seems to forget that the Referendum was NOT legally binding and was just an opinion poll of what the country felt, at that moment in time, and as such we should not be abandoning the Democracy of this country and of Westminster, which Theresa May is trying to do, by not giving MPs the vote to whether Article 50 should be triggered or not and what type of Brexit we should be following.

Christopher Amos

Wynne Street

Bolton