We joined an EU which continued to expand and develop. We agreed with these at every stage. Not via the discredited route of holding referendums but via the representatives we elect.

We opted out of the currency, and continue to use our flag, anthem and parliament.

Directly involving the public in making these decisions completely negates the whole basis of parliamentary democracy. This was shown so very clearly with the Brexit disaster. It opens up vital and hugely complicated issues to short-term politicking and foreign influences. I want our future to be decided by those we vote for, looking hard at all the complexities.

We get our say every 5 years. That's the way it's intended to work. Not to throw such decisions to the winds of chance, or the desire of the Tory Party to silence UKIP or indeed to either the Daily Mail, Rupert Murdoch or Vladimir Putin.

We joined an EU which continued to expand and develop. We agreed with these at every stage. Not via the discredited route of holding referendums but via the representatives we elect.

We opted out of the currency, and continue to use our flag, anthem and parliament.

Directly involving the public in making these decisions completely negates the whole basis of parliamentary democracy. This was shown so very clearly with the Brexit disaster. It opens up vital and hugely complicated issues to short-term politicking and foreign influences. I want our future to be decided by those we vote for, looking hard at all the complexities.

We get our say every 5 years. That's the way it's intended to work. Not to throw such decisions to the winds of chance, or the desire of the Tory Party to silence UKIP or indeed to either the Daily Mail, Rupert Murdoch or Vladimir Putin.

So if no political party existed during those 4 decades that would give the British public a say, why do you think that UKIP could gain traction if the British public was happy to allow parliament to make decisions for us? Why did so many vote to leave the EU if there wasn’t the requirement to do so? Or are you saying that those that voted to leave were somehow ‘uneducated’?

I am not going around that circle again.

The decision was taken by us in the UK. Not in the EU Parliament which has another function.

UKIP gained traction for the very simple reason that enough people who were either solidly Euro-sceptics or gullible enough to fall for the jam tomorrow promises existed to make such a party viable. That they either don’t understand how parliamentary democracy works, or are prepared to ignore it, played into UKIP’s hands, along with the fact that change is always easier to sell than the status quo. We should have required a 2/3rds majority for exit in such circumstances.

Uneducated? Possibly more than those who voted to remain. Foolish, ill informed and misguided, certainly.

It’s you who wilfully ignores the success of many of our new arrivals and especially the second and third generations. You only see the misfits and trouble makers and then seek to tar them all.