Brexit shown to be a car crash

■ With so much argument about the effects of Brexit, can anyone from the world of politics point to a single significant benefit brought about by leaving the EU?

So far, it has proved to be a total disaster – the latest being the predicted damage to the British car industry which could see companies close UK operations due to increased costs.

We are at or near the bottom of most European economic league tables, our inflation rate is higher than other EU countries, the Stormont government in Northern Ireland is non-functional and many businesses are suffering due to insufficient staff. Need I say more?

Paul Methven Winscombe, Somerset

■ Apparently some Tory MPs want Johnson back as leader. They claim he’s a vote winner and cite the landslide victory they enjoyed after the last General Election.

But it was his promise to “get Brexit done” that won him votes – he built his whole campaign on it. Now it’s turning out to be a disaster. Many people are angry the £350 million promised to the NHS never materialised with most now believing it was never going to happen anyway. Sheila Fox Crawley, West Sussex

■ I voted Leave basically to give the Tories the thumbs down. But I didn’t think we would actually come out.

Our politicians let the EU run the country and spent 40 years lining their own pockets.

Now, they actually have to do something and they don’t know how. The bottom line to the Brexit debate is that it was nothing to do with British sovereignty.

Instead it was about preventing the Tory Party from falling apart and the banks being subjected to more regulations – both of which would have happened if we’d stayed in the European Union. Mike Smith, Portsmouth

■ Brexit was an extremely bad idea, whipped up by disingenuous politicians who were only interested in the rewards for them – but that is not to say the Remain side was innocent either in their often misleading claims.

The fact is the British people were stitched up like a kipper and now retribution has come, as we all experience the fallout.

Like Brian Reade, I too am gratified that the youth in Liverpool at Eurovision were waving EU flags because this demographic has been hit hard by this kamikaze and short-sighted decision (Mirror, May 20). How it will play out is anyone’s guess.

Judith Daniels, Great Yarmouth

■ There is a growing chorus of hard-line Brexiteers claiming the disastrous outcomes it has caused are a surprise to them and that this isn’t the Brexit they voted for.

How do we square this muddle with the fact that it’s all turning out exactly how the catastrophising Remainers predicted?

Amanda Baker, Edinburgh

■ Now we see that the possible results of Brexit could kill off the UK car industry because of rising prices. But what is this Tory Government doing to protect jobs?

The answer is nothing at all. Recently, it was mentioned that unemployment is now rising but the ones who should be out of a job are this useless lot. It’s time for change –and quickly. Dave Mellor, Warrington

■ Why should Nigel Farage be surprised Brexit is failing? Millions of voters in the UK told him all along it would be a disaster leaving the EU. We can just hope at some point we decide to go back into the single market. Joe Ciplinski, Skegness