May U-turn won’t avert Brexit chaos
■ THERESA May presented her deal in January and it was rejected by a record 230 votes in Parliament. She has tried to get changes to it and failed, so now she says accept this bad deal which has already been rejected, accept a no-deal which has also been rejected, or delay leaving.
This is not a choice. She is trying to make Parliament change their minds because she can’t get the EU to change theirs. When will she finally work out that she will never get a majority in her own party because extremists would actually prefer to leave without a deal?
Her only way of getting a deal is to compromise and start talking to Labour. But rather than do this she is actually prepared to take our country over the cliff edge.
Terry Marriott, Waterlooville, Hants
■ Here we go again with our so-called Right Honourable MPs acting like spoilt kids. The result was to Leave but to extend Brexit will cost millions in payments to the EU. Meanwhile, those MPs who want to remain or have a second vote should resign as they are scaremongering and going against democracy. Honda and other foreign firms are simply looking after their own interests, as our politicians should do for Britain. We are sleepwalking, not into a no-deal situation, but into riots and even revolution if the referendum result is denied.
Bob Kelly, Blackpool
■ When will blinkered Theresa May finally wake up and realise her Brexit plan is as dead as a dodo? She must be the only person in Britain who believes she can persuade the EU to amend the deal agreed by her.
It’s obvious she has deliberately run down the clock to hoodwink MPs into accepting her botched deal or crashing out with no deal which would be a disaster, according to the Government’s own report. The only way to obtain an acceptable deal is to remove hapless May immediately. Bill Cook, Teignmouth, Devon
■ I am disgusted that Theresa May has let us down and now Brexit could be delayed. The majority voted to leave the EU and Parliament voted for Article 50 which set a leaving date of March
29 and that’s what we must do, with or without a deal.
Anything else would make a mockery of our democracy. As for those who want a second referendum, I will never vote again if this happens and I know many others who feel the same. L Jarvis Wakefield
West Yorks ■ I’m getting tired of the cliche “the will of the people”. We are all “the people” whether we voted to leave or to remain.
I have no liking for the EU as it is and all the negotiations have been carried out by unelected bureaucrats on both sides while MPs have not properly consulted. But as we head for a monumental crisis, I have come to believe the only way to change it is to stay in and fight this strange beast. It’s time we all took a longer look at what’s on offer instead of reacting to our emotions.
P Whatton Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts
■ How can the people of the UK trust the Prime Minister when she has done so many U-turns? She promised there would be no delay to Brexit and now she is giving MPs the option to postpone it further. How many more U-turns is she going to do? The sooner Theresa May resigns the better it will be for all of us.
Mike Minchella Scarborough North Yorks