In his letter, Sydney Kaye seems to suggest that the people are hugely unqualified to judge what might be best for them in a democracy (Asking the people, August 13). He uses the British public’s democratic vote for Brexit as an example of the perils of placing decisions on a country’s future in the hands of "uninformed" voters. Brexit may or may not be a good thing. However, its relationship to land expropriation is not only tenuous in the extreme, it potentially reflects a myopic, imperialist rationalisation. Seen through another lens: the British people are attempting to reclaim their sovereignty, while the "irrational" masses are trying to reclaim their land. Ian James Somerset West
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