In the referendum in 2016 the chancellor at the time George Osborne told us, the need for emergency budgets, interest rates would rise, taxes would go up, companies would flee the country, half a million people would lose their jobs, immediately. Project fear was in full swing, we were going to be poorer, weaker, it was all going to be a disaster.

We voted, despite all of that, by a very clear majority of 1.3 million votes, to leave the European Union. In that document that Cameron put through each and every one of our letterboxes said, whatever the result, our vote would be respected, and the government would implement it, that is what they said, and the next year, in a general election, both the Labour and Conservative parties said in their manifestos vote for us and we will implement the results of the referendum and take you out of the European Union. Then 498 members of Parliament voted for article 50, which said, we would leave the European Union at 11.00pm on 29th March 2019, with or without a withdrawal agreement. They promised this, the Prime Minister promised this, we leave on 29th March, we didn’t.

This Prime Minister promised us we’d leave on 12th April. We didn’t. This Prime Minister promised us we’d leave on the 30th of June. And we won’t. And now this Prime Minister tells us we will leave at the end of October, on Halloween, ask yourself . . . really?

The will of over 17.4 million people has been deliberately, openly and wilfully betrayed by our Prime Minister and our political class in this country. This is about more than leaving the European Union, this is now about whether we are living in a functioning democratic nation.

Here we are with the mother of Parliament’s, who exported that very concept of democracy to America and to the rest of the world and changed the 20th century. This scandal, this outrage, this abuse is happening in our own nation, and we’ve got to put a stop to it.

Sheer wilful betrayal, of our democratic system and our vote.

I think it’s very clear that we now have a parliament that does not represent the will of the people, there is talk that the EU elections may not happen. But I doubt that because the only way this could be stopped is if Mrs. May does a deal with Mr. Corbyn. If Mrs. May signs up to a permanent customs union, if Mrs. May signs up to alignment was single market rules, that it would appear to me as the only way this EU election can be stopped. 5 million people voted Labour and voted for Brexit. 83% of Labour MPs want a second referendum. “We know better than you. And it’s time you change your mind.” So actually, if you believe not just in Brexit, but if you believe in democracy being enacted, you cannot vote for the Labour or Conservative party in these European elections.

I’m not prepared to stand aside nor prepared to be rolled over by our career politicians. I am going to vote in the European elections for the Brexit Party on Thursday 23rd May. Voting does matter we’ll prove it.

Lets shock them again.

Arun M Chandran

Independent