AS THE wheels fall off the Brexit bus it’s time to stop and ask, “What did people vote for in 2016 and is it being delivered?”

The answers are obvious — no-one knows and so clearly it cannot be delivered. The referendum campaign, particularly by leavers, was filled with misinformation and misleading promises. No serious discussion was held on what Brexit involved or where it would take us.

There never was £350 million for the NHS, in fact the opposite; our NHS now teeters on the brink of collapse or sell off to American drug companies. Seventy million Turks are not joining the EU and coming here; successive governments could control immigration but chose not to do so. We cannot leave the EU club and still expect all the benefits of membership; negotiating new deals will not be simple or quick. Nor will they deliver the same benefits. In the meantime our country and its economy blunders into chaos. And all because of a far from decisive vote, in which those most affected such as the young and UK residents in Europe were denied a say, in a ballot where the leave campaign massively overspent its allowed limits and refuses to disclose the source of that money.

The biggest myth is, of course, the claim that the referendum vote was final and that to question it, or its implementation is antidemocratic.

In a democracy people are allowed to question and challenge decisions.

They are allowed to change their mind based on new evidence.

To deny these rights is the real threat to democracy.

When a government behaves like dodgy time share salesmen saying, “You chose this and now must pay the price no matter what,” it loses all credibility.

We were told we were taking back control, not that we were delegating control to a hopelessly divided and incompetent government. It’s time for them to come clean on the costs and consequences of Brexit and put all the options to the public in a new vote. Then, and only then, can they honestly say they are implementing the will of the people.

Len Gates, North Hampshire for Europe