We have also heard the Irish nation have rejected being ruled by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

What are we all to make of this?

Are we on the brink of a revolution by more of our principled MPs and MEPS?

Those who place morality above personal profit.

Could the possible result be Mr Davis will form a new political party composed of men and women with principles who are prepared to sacrifice all those perks and privileges that we have been reading about for years and who will say that from now on they will vote as their constituents and their consciences dictate and not to the diktat of party whips?

In Afghanistan and Iraq British servicemen and women who are laying down their lives are paid less than a traffic warden.

Can any MP, that is those who send them there, not venture a little personal risk to their pockets by following Mr Davis and submitting their financial future to the terror of scrutiny of their conduct by the electorate, you and me.

Mr Brown was wanting a general election recently and Messrs Cameron and Clegg said bring it on.

So let the principled MPs force one so that we, the electorate, can tell them of the very long list of things we want done and of which they seem to be quite unaware.

An Englishman, one Thomas Paine (1737-1809), a journalist, had a tremendous influence on the American Revolution in which the English were kicked out of the American colonies.

His common sense pamphlet paved the way for the Declaration of Independence of America.

Part of it reads: “All men have certain undeniable rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

“To secure these rights governments are instructed among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed.”

Do you really believe the Human Rights Act which was the brainchild of highly-paid, unelected Brussels bureaucrats has made your life any better?

Any criminal would say it had of course.

Do you not believe this country today is almost exactly at the same stasi-ruled state as George Orwell forecast it would be in 1984.

Men and women who fought in the war against Nazism must weep at times when they hear the latest daily proposals emanating from ‘elf and safety and a thousand other highly-paid unelected quangos.

What can we do about it?

Please write and tell the editor as he would like a change from ‘The rights of dogs to defecate’ and will welcome correspondence on ‘the rights of man’.

What do I propose to do?

I am going to stand for election to board either the Westminster or Brussels gravy-train.

I am well qualified, being a man of principle who has many lunatic ideas as to how you lot should lead your lives.

My wife deserved a well-paid job and I am a talented player of the violin.

CA Jefferies, The Avenue, Ruswarp