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Those whom the Gods Destroy they first make mad.

David Cameron lost an election but became PM anyway and then he won an election but brought about his own down fall by doing so and had to resign a year later because fundamentally he lacked the support of his former junior partners in coalition.

He held three referendums at great public expense to simply hold his party together. His ludicrous waste of everyone's time and money holding an electoral reform referendum was utterly ridiculous. No one wanted AV. Yet we all had to vote on whether we were going to adopt an electoral system no one wanted. He obtained the result he wanted and in doing so undermined his own coaltion partners in the process.

We then had the Scottish vote which he very nearly lost. We then had the European vote which was I suggest at best inconclusive. The vote was a personal defeat for Cameron but is no reason to bounce the UK out of the EU. Shall we look at the numbers?The vote in the referendum of 23rd June was inconclusive. In England only 37.4% of the electorate voted to leave and 34.5% voted to stay. A massive 28% decided to leave the matter to the politicians. They did not want to take part in Cameron's attempt to hold his party together. In Scotland however a massive 40% voted to stay and only 28% voted to leave with a huge 31% abstaining wanting Westminster to decide.

David Cameron's resignation disguised the true outcome of the referendum.

Over 17 million people voted to leave but there are 63 million people on the island of Britain and plenty more in Northern Ireland too. I think it was PM Jim Callaghan back in 1979 who required 40% of registered Scottish voters to vote for a Scottish Parliament before they could have one. Scots did not vote in those kinds of numbers and they had to wait another 20 years before Anthony Charles Lynton Blair came along and gave them another opportunity. You should never meet your heroes. You ll only be disappointed. I think only 55% of Scots voted in the last Holyrood Parliamentary elections.

This is a matter for Parliament because Parliament passed enabling legislation. The referendum never had any force of law and is only advisory. Parliament cannot and should not abdicate responsibility for the decision. Each MP and his/her office and staff cost us all one million three hundred and forty thousand pounds each year, according to figure released by the Boundary Commission. That is just the Commons. Who knows what the Lords costs? Parliament should not therefore be saying the people have decided. The people have not decided for the reasons set out above as many many millions left the matter to Parliament on 23rd of June 2016 in numbers almost as large as voted one way or the other. We are still a Parliamentary democracy and Parliament must decide.