THOSE correspondents who say that the result of the EU Referendum should stand because it is the result of democracy are wrong.

Democracy is exercised when voting occurs every so often.

Normally in this country, that is every five years but when a majority is very small it is much sooner.

The majority for Leave is very small, and therefore another referendum would be democratic.

At each general election, voters are allowed to change their minds.

Why not in this referendum.

I believe that many of the four and a half million people who have backed the call for a new referendum have realised their mistake.

They did not think that it would trigger another independence referendum in Scotland, which is most likely to succeed this time, nor bring about closer co-operation between the two Irelands.

Soon our national flag may well be the Cross of St George.

The dream of being Great Britain, could dissolve into being Little England.

No, those people calling for another referendum, are not opposing the will of the people.

They are the people, and should be allowed to think again.

Clive Blackmore.

Stroud