A LOT of people have complained about the amount of “rubbish”

spoken during the referendum campaign.

I fear that is going to continue, if only because we are in completely new territory.

During an election, political parties campaign on broad issues.

There may be one or two of those issues which dominate the campaign, but largely there is a programme contained in a manifesto.

After the election the party elected can pick and choose how the programme is implemented.

In this referendum, we have voted in answer to a single question and the majority have voted “no”.

There is no precedent as to how this will be implemented.

Already there are differing views on how quickly the procedures should be invoked and implemented, and that is before we even begin to discuss what the objectives should be.

As anticipated, we now have instability in the financial markets and, before this has chance to settle, there could be more instability caused by the election of a new Prime Minister and possibly the election of a new leader of the opposition. Then there is the question of what will happen in Scotland and the risk of more instability.

Clearly the British people have given a mandate for us to come out of Europe, but it must be remembered that there are many millions of people who voted to remain. Will their views be accommodated in any way?

Democracy is not a simple concept and often it does not achieve what people expect.

Most of us will not get a say in the choice of the new Prime Minister and, throughout the years, that has often been the case.

David Cowgill Knutsford