Letter: Leaders have lost sovereignty

Letter: John Locke was one of England's most enlightened thinkers.

In his famous Second Treatise on government, he opined that if a sovereign government transfers the sovereignty freely granted by its ancestors to an external power without the consent of its people, it ceases to be sovereign and thereby forfeits allegiance.

The Government, having broken its election pledge to allow the electorate a referendum on the European Constitution on the vacuous grounds that the Lisbon Treaty is less important, has broken faith with the electorate who are subsequently under no moral obligation to comply with legislation issued from Brussels.

Any new government should not be bound by the requirements of the treaty and it should not be implemented before the electorate are consulted. If Cameron cannot see that, the Tories may yet suffer humiliation at the general election.

Robert Jenkins

Stirchley