The AV referendum result has demonstrated the actual existence of the formerly rumoured metropolitan liberal elite (AV referendum, 7 May). What a parade of liberal snobs and toffs – Oxford and Cambridge, Camden and Islington, orchestrated by the good old Guardian; you couldn't make it up. Is Michael White being satirical when he describes this collection of out-of-touch villagers as progressives? I hope so, following the Guardian's call to vote Lib Dem a year ago. Leader Miliband should note that Doncaster – a town in northern England he is kind enough to represent – recorded one of the firmest rebuttals of this piece of time-wasting nonsense.
David Helliwell
Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
• I now have a better understanding of the term chattering class. "We voted Yes to AV – in Islington."
Ronnie McGowan
Glasgow
• Both Oxford and Cambridge voted Yes to AV. Are those populations peculiarly ill-informed or just rather dim-witted?
Stephen Tomkins
Cambridge
• If 10 of 440 voting areas voted in favour of AV, those areas should use it in all forthcoming general elections. MPs do not all have to be elected in the same way – various countries use different ways to elect MEPs. The Conservatives have made localism one of their central themes – what could be more localist than allowing communities to decide how they choose their elected representatives?
Luke Hildyard
London