SOME weeks ago in the Letters page I questioned why we bother to have a General Election when the will of the people through our elected Members of Parliament are constantly being overruled by the EU and House of Lords.
The latest example is when the House of Lords has overruled a Commons vote and given the right to vote in an EU referendum to school children at the age of 16, all of whom were not born when the original concept of the Common Market was introduced.
The majority of these children have never worked, never paid taxes and have no idea how the country is run and what effect the EU has on us.
If these children are not allowed to vote in a General Election how can they be given the vote in a larger arena?
The reasons why the Lords have done this is that some of them have a personal reason to remain in the EU and others just want to defeat the Government, no matter what the consequences are.
The quicker the House of Lords is reformed, or done away with, the better.
AP Cox, Heath Close, Holgate, York
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