John Major and Tony Blair must stop hysterical ranting about Brexit ‘tyranny’ and accept the vote

FUNNY, isn’t it, how the will of the majority is “tyranny” if it goes against you?

This is now the hilarious position of John Major, a once wise elder statesman apparently deranged by the Brexit vote.

Would he have considered a 52-48 Remain victory a “tyranny”? Er, no.

But he doesn’t like the actual result, so he finds fault with the democracy that delivered it. As does his old foe and now co-conspirator Tony Blair.

We don’t recall Blair, five months after his election win in 1997, demanding voters be given a second chance. Yet here he is now, cooking up a new referendum with fellow Labour has-beens Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson.

They’re like a faded ’90s boyband reliving old glories on a tragic reunion tour: it’s Take That Back.

Beating their drum is the Lib Dems’ shamelessly opportunistic leader Tim Farron. With his shattered party reduced to only eight MPs he’ll take any Remainer votes going, no matter how undemocratic the case he must argue.

David Cameron called the referendum — and said this: “It’s a once in a generation, once in a lifetime opportunity. The result determines the outcome.”

Couldn’t be clearer, could it?

The plotters are capitalising on a vacuum left by the Government. It is time Boris Johnson and other Ministers were let loose to put them back in their box.

Meanwhile Britain stubbornly refuses to provide the bad news they yearn for.

Two days after the gloomy guesswork of the Office for Budget Responsibility, economists have revised forecasts up thanks to a surprise surge in business investment and the biggest jump in shop sales for a year.

Jaguar may create 10,000 jobs.

And Bavaria, Germany’s economic powerhouse, is desperate for the EU to give Britain a generous Brexit trade deal to avoid damage there.

The road may yet be bumpy. But one thing we know for sure is we’ll reap a “Brexit dividend” of £10billion a year in EU fees we won’t have to pay.

There won’t be another vote. But, the way we’re going, Leave would win it by a mile.

Green built

IF it’s serious about solving Britain’s housing crisis the Government must think ­radically about building on the Green Belt.

It was created 70 years ago to prevent cities spreading uncontrollably. But it is partly now responsible for a generation being priced out of the property market.

Land is too pricey because so much is off-limits. And not all of it is idyllic green fields. Some is ripe for building.

Rural campaigners claim there are many ex-industrial or commercial “brownfield” sites available. But there are not nearly enough in booming areas where new properties are most needed.

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has already given the nod to 6,000 homes on Green Belt land in Birmingham.

The Government needs to look hard at it nationwide... and grasp the nettle.