SADLY Peter McNab appears to have fallen into the trap that voters who choose not to cast their vote have somehow vanished down a black hole.

All countries and organisations, both public and private, have default arrangements to classify the votes of those who were entitled to vote but did not do so.

This is essential in all cases where legal decisions have to be taken.

An individual example of this is someone who has chosen not to make a will.

In which case there are default rules/laws to deal with that person’s estate.

In effect the person concerned voted to allow the default decisions to take place.

In the case of most, but not all, countries and organisations, their default arrangements for inactive electorate voters are the same as ours.

The default effect in the UK is that those who have chosen not to cast a formal vote have collectively voted to be regarded as voting in direct proportion to those who did cast a formal vote.

Thus Mr Nuttall is perfectly correct in stating that the majority of the public did vote in favour of leaving the EU, some of which chose the formal vote, others chose the informal default route.

It is, after all, only a matter of common sense.

Don Micklewright

Weaverham