JOHN Thorne argues, in letter of the week, November 24, for a second referendum on leaving the EU saying the first was won on broken promises.
Having voted since 1965, I have never yet witnessed an election in which promises made on the hustings were not immediately discarded by the winners once in office but this is the first I can recall in which the losers refused to accept and sought to overturn the result of the majority vote.
Be that as it may such facile arguments are put forward whilst blatantly ignoring the broken promises of the Remain camp. We were promised that a vote to leave would be honoured by the Prime Minister who called it. He promised he would lead the country out of the EU if we voted for that and insisted he would activate Article 50 immediately.
Not only did he fail to honour those promises, it transpired that he specifically forbade the development of an action plan prior to the referendum that would have enabled the government to proceed with the exit for which he sought and got the mandate. 
Caught out in his falsehood this cowardly man then bolted from office and politics as fast as he could, leaving his successor to start the whole process from scratch whilst working against a rearguard action of obfuscation, legal subterfuge and mobile goalposts from so-called democratic politicians whose idea of democracy is that it only works when it goes their way.
Finally, they gleefully seize on the lack of progress on bringing down immigration, which everyone knows will be perpetually thwarted by EU bureaucrats and courts on human rights and freedom of movement grounds for as long as we remain, whilst steadfastly ignoring the failure of every doom-laden prediction on the economy in the £9.3m worth of propaganda leaflets pushed out by Cameron’s Whitehall, the CBI, the OBR, the IMF and George Osborne, architect-in-chief of their failed campaign.
Keith Burge was, and is, right to call for the remain voters to accept the will of the majority as expressed and move on.
ALAN MASON
Pewsey