If Big Ben can’t bong, how can we cheer Brexit?

THOUGH it would have been nice for Big Ben to ring out to celebrate the UK leaving the EU as well as the countdown clock at Downing Street, why not have the Massed Bands of the Brigade of Guards playing Rule Britannia outside Buckingham Palace.

J. DASHFIELD, Swindon, Wilts.

BE IT Trafalgar Square or your town square, bring hand bells, bicycle bells, school bells and tubular bells to ring a cacophony to acknowledge our release from the corrupt, undemocratic EU.

F. L. APPLEYARD, Shepley, W. Yorks.

SIMPLY play a recording of Big Ben.

CHRIS PHASEY, Dover, Kent.

THE bells of all the churches rung in unison across the country would be even more inspiring than Big Ben.

COLIN WILLIAMS, Denbury, Devon.

WHY such a clamour for Big Ben to sound on January 31? It would be tolling Little England’s isolation from influence and abdication from European co-operation.

JOHN SORRELL, Paris.

SEND some bloke up in a Union Flag leotard with matching ear defenders to wallop Big Ben with a chuffin’ big sledgehammer.

IAN WALMSLEY, Derby.

WOULDN’T £500,000 be better spent as a donation to Australia?

L. MORRIS, Sheffield.

BIG Ben may not be open for business, but nottingham’s Great Tom is in fine fettle.

Name supplied, Ripley, Derbys.

LET’S leave the EU with a bang: set off fireworks at 11pm on January 31.

GEOFF CLAYTON, Bradford, W. Yorks.

TELL MPs who are against Big Ben chiming: no bongs, no gongs.

MIKE HOWELL, Folkestone, Kent.

FRED DIBNAH would have sorted Big Ben in a couple of days for £500 plus a pie and pint for lunch.

MARTIN DARBEY, Coventry.

TO BONG or not to bong? Isn’t it wonderful to know we can still give the rest of the world a laugh.

SANDRA PARSONS, Keston, Kent.