THE employers, bosses, liege lords of the United Kingdom, the British people, as acknowledged by Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, were granted a referendum in June of this year whether they wanted to remain in the political union called the EU.

A majority of the British people gave their answer and the new government has said it will trigger Article 50 by the end of March this year.

But what if that doesn’t happen?

Will a general election be automatically triggered due to a broken promise?

If there were a majority of MPs who supported leaving the EU, we would have done so already and the fact is, our elected representatives’ views on the EU are at odds with their “liege lords”. What redress would the British people have?

Technically we would have to elect a UKIP government and this would need all those who voted to leave the EU to vote for them and due to constituency boundaries still might not be enough.

In many walks of life, legal contracts are drawn up to make sure various parties adhere to agreed rules, often with penalties if clauses are broken.

The British people delegate the governance of their country to governments who in turn are held to account by MPs and the House of Lords.

Yet where is the contract that sets out powers and responsibilities?

In the United States of America, there is such a contract and it starts with the words, “We the People...” We need a similar document and one that gives us “liege lords”

of the UK more power to make sure our wishes prevail over our political classes.

Stuart Noyes, Vigo Road, Andover