Political pantomime

FOLLOWING the slow, painful progress of the Brexit negotiations is proving unbearable.

To keep my sanity, I have decided to stop watching and listening to political news and discussion programmes on TV and radio.

The political parties appear to be indifferent to the national interest and the fears of ordinary citizens. This shambles continues while the NHS, police, schools, financial institutions and social services appear to be crumbling around us.

Personal political ambitions seem to be the order of the day. What the Brexit negotiations required was a government of national unity, not the political panto we are witnessing.

MICHAEL G. M. KENNY, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks. I AM dismayed at the petty, ridiculous squabbling over Brexit. Where were all these MPs when the Maastricht and Lisbon Treaties were signed, tying us closer to the eU?

At least Theresa May knows that politics is the art of the possible. My main concern is the transition period, which seems to be aimed at keeping us in the eU for as long as possible to extract even more money from us.

SHEILAH LEGG, Havant, Hants. THe PM’s sporting hero, cricketer Geoffrey Boycott, was a similarly stolid, stoical, often boring player, but the right man for trying to avoid defeat in a game where it appeared his team could not win.

He was often on the defensive backfoot — as it seems Mrs May has been during the Brexit negotiations.

Boycott was not a successful leader during his captaincy of Yorkshire.

PETER HOLMES, Burley in Wharfedale, W. Yorks.