More umming and harming on Brexit

The case for a new EU referendum gets stronger every day. We now learn that aside from the ‘red bus lies’ and scare stories about being overrun by immigrants, the dubious funding and spending of the Vote Leave campaign meant that many people may have been unfairly persuaded into voting for Brexit.

We now learn of possible shortages of food and medicines, an NHS crisis as European medical staff leave, massive queues at our ports, major companies relocating to Europe, significant job losses as manufacturers struggle with tariffs and inventory problems – and a host of other negative outcomes.

So, as negotiations with Europe are either concluded or abandoned, before the nation takes the final, suicidal step of leaving, we must be given the chance to express our views now that the Brexit implications become clearer.

That is true democracy. Paul Methven Winscombe, Somerset I voted to come out of the EU because of the lost generations of British people thrown on the scrapheap, with jobs going abroad and immigrants taking jobs here. With food and medicines coming in from abroad, the policies of successive governments are now coming home to roost. We were almost selfsufficient in the war years, and we can do it again if we all pull together. If all the profits of the big corporations were reinvested in this country, we could make it a success. SJ Walker, Newark, Notts

With Theresa May’s latest customs’ proposals in shreds and Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and co shouting at us to jump off the no-deal cliff, isn’t it time for a Brexit rethink?

The world is a different place since the first vote was taken, with Donald Trump as President of the US starting a trade war which could lead to recession, making any hope of successful trade deals with other countries very hard.

MPs and the British people, including 16-year-olds, should be allowed to vote on the end result of the negotiations – and Brexit should be scrapped if the majority vote to stay in. John Allwright Edgware, Gtr London

What ridiculous scaremongering regarding food shortages if we leave the EU with a so-called ‘no-deal’.

If it happens, we will be under World Trade Organisation rules and will be able to trade with whoever we want. Forget the scaremongers and look forward to a future without the EU. Ian Bentley, Pudsey, West Yorks

Hands up those who voted to leave the EU as a result of the lies pedalled by Brexiteers and expected it would be as protracted, costly, complicated, incompetently administered and negotiated, divisive, chaotic, uncertain, financially worrying, torturous and traumatic as it is turning out to be?

None. I thought so. That’s why the public must have a vote on the final deal. Mick Hall, Preston, Lancs It has been said repeatedly that if we don’t get a good deal with Brexit we will end up like a developing country. Come on, we have roads no better than dirt tracks and families who rely on foodbanks and charity shops to survive. And that is with us being in the EU. Could things really get any worse? M George Biggleswade, Beds