May holds cards but can she deal?
■ While Theresa May plays the pantomime dame with seven dwarfs lined up behind her, the future of the ordinary people of the UK is at stake. She is playing a game of brinkmanship over Brexit and we will all pay the price.
Mrs May and most Conservative MPs don’t have to worry about their financial future, but we do. So instead of pontificating, let’s hear the full details of what will happen to us if there is no deal, then give us a second vote. You were willing to let us vote in or out of the EU, so now trust us enough to decide our own futures without lies or political spin. Mary Pester, Saltash, Cornwall
■ I was a Remainer but I accepted the result of the referendum. What I don’t accept are calls for a second referendum. That’s not democracy. Britain should go it alone for a minimum of two years, then if it’s not working, we should go back to the EU with a begging bowl and ask to rejoin. At least give our great country a chance because these so-called “experts” don’t actually know what’s going to happen until we leave. I’d like to think we would get new business from countries we can’t currently deal with. J Lee, Wem, Shropshire
■ Those people who voted for Brexit were like turkeys voting for Christmas. At the time, the Leave campaign claimed £350million a week would go to the NHS, which was totally misleading. Certain politicians misused statistics to influence the vote. Brexit is a mess. It has already cost the economy billions and every household in the country will be worse off than if we’d stayed in the EU.
It’s time the Government published all the facts and gave the British people a second vote.
Mick Rutland Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham
■ After two years of vacillation, it’s not too late for robust leadership to deliver the Brexit people voted for.
Officialdom assumes a deal is vital, which is why little thought has been put into us walking away under
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Trade Organization rules and why we’re seeing “Project Fear”. But under WTO rules we can make our own free-trade agreements, plus we’d be able to run our country as we wish and regain our fishing waters. We don’t need a deal with the EU – we can be an independent country again. Ian Bentley, Pudsey, West Yorks
■ The egotistical charlatans of the European Research Group are leading us towards a Brexit crashout. They think leaving will make Britain great again. They are delusional. We were never great, we ruled half the world by fear and suppression. These islands are a tiny speck in the eastern Atlantic, part of Europe and part of a magnificent trading bloc. For the sake of our children and grandchildren, Europe has to be the way forward. Alan Baber, Westonsuper-Mare, Somerset
■ A second Brexit referendum would be meaningless. The problem we have is how the different factions interpret the last referendum result as they peruse their hidden agendas. A second vote would change nothing – it would just take us closer to a hard Brexit.
Terry Evans, Crewe, Cheshire