I, LIKE many others, get quite annoyed when MPs make up their own rules when calling for a second referendum.

The majority voted to leave the EU, I was one of them and our views should be respected.

I would also add that the PM has adopted a soft approach on Brexit, paying money to the EU which could have gone to our NHS, care for the elderly and our Armed Forces.

She’s has become too soft on immigration, which I consider is out of control.

Ben Ord, Spennymoor

The debate rumbles on in the comments section of the Echo website about the calls by five North-East Labour MPs for a ‘people’s vote’ on any Brexit deal. Here are a selection of the latest views:

THE vote is not for Brexit – it is for hard Brexit or soft Brexit. The result stands.

Tommy Witts

WHY ask the people for a second vote? These people were elected by a majority vote in the last election to follow the will of the people and they should back their constituents on what the vote was in their region. They are getting well paid to represent us if they can’t do the job then tender their resignation. If we have to have a second vote on a soft/hard Brexit the vote should only include those who voted to leave. The people who voted remain lost and should have no say or influence in the outcome along with the likes of Phil Wilson and the other MPs mentioned.

gavshaw62

APART from the fact a referendum is advisory and not a binding vote, circumventing parliament as leavers keep trying to do is not getting our sovereignty back, it is trying to form a dictatorship, nothing to do with democracy.

Daniel Blake

I THINK Mr Wilson has bigger problems than this. Remember he famously – and very bravely – distanced himself from Corbyn at the last general election. Reselection, or rather deselection must be on the agenda soon.

Lordelpme

REMINDER – all but one Labour MP voted remain, so what happens after two years of negotiations and the vote is no? We have another few years of negotiating? This is just a remainers’ plan to stall the process indefinitely. All I would say is get the politicians out of it and let business do what business needs to do. EU trade is good, EU politics isn’t. It’s bad enough having London policy forced on us. We need local policies and definitely not EU policies.

RealLivin

WHAT local policies? Sorry but I feel safer having ‘London’ policy, administered by people who have Euro experience than having people who remain distanced from much of anything in the UK making decisions. I prefer the pilot flies the plane not the steward.

Publicity stunt

GIVEN that there wasn’t a plan B at the time of the referendum it seems a fair assumption that things need to be worked out.

The EU isn’t up for the UK leaving and is saying at every step: “You can’t do that because our rules say so.” It’s making negotiations difficult and unless Corbyn gave into them he would have the same answers. That doesn’t excuse Corbyn’s complete lack of an alternative position. It speaks to me of someone who doesn’t want the responsibility of decision making.

Topband

THE sooner we leave the EU the better, the sooner we cease free movement the better, the time when we wake up and allow only the people the country wants and needs the better.

markymark1970

PEOPLE’S vote? We already had the vote and as Cameron said leaving the EU was leaving the single market and customs union.

Bagpuss

HOW can this bloke sleep? He doesn’t support his leader, he goers against what the majority of his constituents voted for. How are you still a Labour MP? We’ve already voted Phil stop playing silly games. You’re there to represent what the majority of your constituents voted for. If you’re not going to then resign.

shayman