• STEPHEN Southam acknowledges the wide variety of conflicting reasons why people voted for Brexit in the 2016 Referendum – but asks “Who cares?”, (It’s nonsense to call for another People’s Vote, August 3).

Who cares that maybe half of Brexit voters were voting for something diametrically opposed to what the other half of Brexit voters were voting for? Is he serious?

If the question on our ballot papers had been: “Do you want to give whatever politicians are in power at the time a blank cheque to impose whatever kind of Brexit they choose” does he really think even a narrow majority of voters would have voted “yes”?

It’s true that our politicians seem to be acting as though that’s indeed what voters said. And Stephen is surely right when he implies that it was our politicians’ reckless approval of the original referendum arrangements that got us into this mire.

But surely it means we must snatch back that counterfeit cheque before the politicians attempt to bank it. Ordinary voters can see the mess that our representatives are making of the whole project, egged on by an influential group of leading Brexiters with dubious motives.

The country is still bitterly divided on the direction we should be going in. But few, even among Brexit voters, want the economy trashed, our rights and livelihoods endangered, the NHS weakened, our social fabric ripped apart and the UK pushed to the margins of global affairs.

In these circumstances, it’s not surprising that an increasing majority of the population wants the final deal/non-deal to be put to a People’s Vote. Surely that’s something we can unite on?

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