UKIP member Colin Hingston (Echo, September 7) still can’t accept Nigel Farage’s view that such a narrow referendum vote would be ‘unfinished business’. 

Significantly, the majority of voters aged under fifty, women, Northern Ireland and Scotland all voted to remain in the EU.

By March 2019, there will be very few people aged under 21 who had the opportunity to vote and, inevitably, many who did vote will be deceased.

Mr Hingston refers only to people who would vote differently. 

Polling by Deltapoll in May and July found that 44 per cent of those who didn’t vote in 2016 favour ‘remain’ and 16 per cent favour ‘leave’.

A second vote would enhance democracy both because it would represent the current electorate, and because the issues are becoming much more evident.

Perhaps Mr Hingston would tell us all the occasions when the EU has ‘crushed democracy’ by repetitive voting to get the answers it wants, particularly as EU power is exercised mainly by Ministers from Member States at the Council of Ministers, and elected MEPs including (often absent) UKIP representatives in the EU parliament. 

What does Mr Hingston consider more democratic than Brussels? Russia, where multi-millionaire and major UKIP donor Arron Banks has extensive contacts? Or Westminster’s divided minority government tenuously shored up by DUP members from pro-remain Northern Ireland?

As to a ‘metropolitan elite’ supporting ‘remain’, big UKIP donors include a Mayfair-based financial services company, Mayfair private members club, and an East London property developer. 

Denis Fryer
Calmore