The EU referendum vote was clear; Britain has made the decision to exit Europe.

As yet there is still shock and even despair.

We have been bombarded with explanations for the electorate’s decision ranging from the toxic influence of the popular press to the innate xenophobic outlook of the British people.

A high profile government campaign failed to get its message across.

The electorate does not trust the government or the opposition; this is, for me, the core of the matter.

In the first full year of this government so many election promises have been broken, understandably the promises made about membership of the EU were not trusted.

The proportional representational nature of the EU referendum vote ensured that everyone’s vote had significance, not the case for the first past the post Westminster -system; this has resulted in the composition of the House of Commons failing to be truly representative of the voters.

Westminster has lost touch with the world outside Metropolitania.

This is true for both major parties.

David Cameron was so out of touch with the disillusionment felt in the country that he risked the whole of Britain’s future in order to placate the right wing of his party.

Jeremy Corbyn was overwhelmingly elected as leader of the Labour Party by a truly democratic method; one Labour Party supporter, one vote but the Parliamentary Labour Party doesn’t like the voters’ choice so it is going to do its best to unseat him.

Given that political scenario it might perhaps have suggested that we would see the European Union as a better democratic option.

Sadly, even worse in the EU despite PR; unelected Commissioners set the Parliament’s agenda; one of their present undertakings is secret negotiations on how to shoe in TTIP thus ensuring that health services and welfare provisions become cash cows for big US corporations.

For those who rail against the outcome of the referendum it is worth remembering that the turn out was 71.8% with 53.4% of those voting to leave and in Shropshire the figures were even starker; 77% turnout with 56.9% voting Leave.

An irony is that the EU protest vote has had this unexpected outcome; the government has been forced to heed the ‘ignorant sans culottes', as one soured Remain supporters has called exit voters, and an early election could be on the cards.