The ins & outs of latest Brexit vote
Less than a week ago, we saw Theresa May coming back from Brussels having secured a deal to break the deadlock in Brexit talks. Since then she has been strutting around like a prize peacock. But a few days later and she is defeated in the Commons by her own rebel MPs.
May has no mandate and no majority, and has never won an election outright, but acts as if she is the great leader this country needs.
Surely after this defeat the rankand-file Tories should ask her to stand down for the sake of their party? There’s hope for Jeremy Corbyn yet.
R Wisson, Macclesfield, Cheshire
# Until Wednesday’s vote, I was fully hoping we would walk away without paying the EU anything. But no longer. We will never get out of this prison now. I blame the Brexiteers who voted Labour because before the election they cleverly promised everything to everyone. However, I don’t believe they have any intention of delivering the goods when it comes to Brexit. By contrast, Mrs May naïvely called an election thinking she would get a majority. But she and we are done for now. I am utterly depressed by events.
Dai Woosnam, Grimsby North East Lincs
# All credit to Dominic Grieve and other Tories for scuppering Theresa May’s archaic Henry VIII law to bypass parliamentary procedures. Grieve, a former Attorney General, knows the law inside out and should command respect even though his views don’t coincide with other Tories.
He is adamant that MPs should be able to amend legislation right up to the Brexit leave date. This is true democracy.
If May had succeeded, we would be returning to the barbaric times of Henry VIII and serfdom for the masses.
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# My generation may have swung the referendum in favour of invoking Article 50, but now the possible consequences of leaving are becoming clearer, much as it might upset some, since we started this I think we should also have the final say.
I think people should be given a choice between a hard or soft Brexit and there could even be a re-run. The politicians should be our servants, not the other way round.
M J Cobb, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex
# It just goes to show that even 11 of her own MPs don’t trust Theresa May when it comes to getting the best deal for Brexit.
They, as we do, have to listen to her lies every week at Prime Minister’s Questions.
So let’s see if she and her Cabinet can deliver on the Brexit they have promised now that there will be a meaningful parliamentary vote.
Robert Hill, Blyth, Northumberland
# Once again, some Labour MPs who voted to remain in the EU are telling me, and 17.4 million others who voted to leave, what we should be thinking. Only I know what I think. And after voting Labour for 60 years, their patronising attitude towards those of us who voted to leave has led me to rethink who I’ll be voting for at the next general election.