<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/democracy.jpeg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5475" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/democracy-300x200.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a>OK, OK, I have never posted anything on my site of a political nature or if I have I cannot remember when because it was such a long time ago however I'm not going to sit back and let the current political debacle pass without comment.

I voted to remain in the EU, I was one of 16,141,241 people - 17,410,742 voted to leave. Of course this is a majority and "democracy" in this case led to Brexit however if the referendum had been staged slightly differently so that 50% of people on the electoral register had to vote in favour of leaving then the result would have been different. There were, at the time, 45,766,000 entitled to vote and 17,410,742 is only 38% of the electorate not 51.9%. Whichever way you voted it was clearly a very close run election and it has been divisive, another referendum would not resolve the division.

Democracy is a strange creature - if a union in the UK wishes to go on strike it must obtain the support of at least 40% of all members entitled to vote in the ballot. If that version of democracy had been applied to the referendum then we wouldn't be leaving. So, one rule for our political leaders and another for our workers - go figure!

Where do we go from here? Who knows - if you believe our democratic rights will be improved by leaving the EU then think again; the politicians will still be in control and Westminster is as far removed from reality as Brussels or Strasbourg. If in twelve months time, assuming we have exited, don't be surprised if the promises made by the Leave campaign in the run up to the referendum fail to appear. Promises regarding the NHS on the Leave battle bus and immigration levels are unlikely to be fulfilled so what will we have gained? Answers on a postage stamp please...