A good match for the election contest

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/27/a-good-match-for-the-election-contest

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The widespread anti-democratic reactions to the referendum result are quite worrying (Blame the electorate for getting it wrong, Letters, 27 June). The ultimate logic of such opposition – not accepting majorities of voters when you disagree with them – is well known across the world. The “saviours” of the country from the “idiocy” of an ill-informed people are the armed forces.Peter TaylorTynemouth

• Cameron may well go down in history as the man who destroyed the union with Scotland and the EU. With a bit of luck he’ll also be the man who destroyed the Tory party.Professor Peter Taylor-GoobyUniversity of Kent

• Malcolm Tucker had a word for it: omnishambles.Andrew HamlingBurnley, Lancashire

• I wonder if Johnson, Gove, Farage et al are aware of the aphorism: “Political promises are like babies: easy to make, but hell to deliver”?John WilliamsLeicester

• In any Labour leadership battle I hope that Chris Bryant will stand. For the Tories, I hope Theresa May will stand. In an early election there could then be the prospect of a contest between Bryant and May. A good match?Roy TrahearnLincoln

• Nothing has actually happened yet, we are still in the EU. Today is just another day. Carry on carrying on.Barbara PattersonLeatherhead, Surrey

• How nicely ironic it would be if Brexit spurred the EU into reforming itself into an institution that would have been acceptable to the UK.Tom UprichardLondon

• It gets worse: who will vote for the UK in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest?Peter O’PreyBelfast

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