We must end this Brexit Cheqmate

REMEMBER the promises during the referendum campaign back in 2016? We’ll gain £350million a week to fund the NHS, we will get new trade deals with the United States, and negotiating a new deal with the EU will be the easiest in history.

Now consider the cold hard reality. Brexit has already cost us billions, even before it happens. The NHS is facing a massive drop in nurses from the EU working here, and the US President has slapped tariffs on our steel industry. Now the Government is preparing for gridlock at our ports and stockpiling food and medicine. Is this what people who voted Leave in 2016 wanted? I doubt it.

We have the right – and a responsibility to our children – to make this decision based on facts, not promises. We need a People’s Vote on the final deal, with the option to stay in the EU. Kevin Sullivan, Swansea Isn’t it about time people stopped putting down Brexit? All they are doing is making the UK look weak so we have no bargaining power. The vote was to leave the EU and that is what we must do. Tariffs are spoken about as if we should worry about them, but the fact is they work both ways. If we are hit with them we hit back. We should all get behind Brexit so the EU doesn’t tell us what to do. C Evans Braintree, Essex How can consulting the electorate on important issues be undemocratic? I’m still undecided about Brexit because there is still not enough factual detail on the consequences. Hopefully, there will be more when the deal is on the table and at that point I will decide.

Since the referendum, many young people have acquired the vote and surely they should have the chance to exercise their democratic right? It is, after all, their future. No, what would be undemocratic is for a decision to be imposed that would potentially defy what the majority want. If leaving is the right thing to do, I’d expect a further vote to reflect that.

I don’t see why Leave are so afraid of a democratic decision. Dave Brown, South Shields Tyne and Wear Is the Labour Party trying to right May’s wrongs by backing a second vote? Why can’t these politicians accept the country voted to come out of the EU?

I believe politicians are acting undemocratically by trying to overturn a decision taken by the majority of the electorate in the UK. Graham Wilson, Middlesbrough We are constantly told that a second EU referendum would be undemocratic. Well, what exactly was the first one? We were not given the full facts and the ones given have turned out to be absolute lies.

We now know more about the facts, so before it is too late let’s have a proper referendum. Stan Rugman, Derby If the Government proceeds with Theresa May’s Chequers deal and does not respect the referendum result to leave the EU, this proves we do not live in a democracy. Buying only British and boycotting all EU products and holidays would be the only way to teach the EU a lesson. Matt Bilson, Brighton