Are we in the land of sprouts and cabbages?

■ If Terry from Winnersh – who urges us all to ‘buy British’ (MetroTalk, Tue) – can tell me where to buy British Parma ham, pasta, olive oil, tinned tomatoes, cannellini beans etc I will gladly do so. We don’t all live on sprouts, parsnips and cabbage.

Ruth, via email

■ Just think what a massive boost to the British economy it would be if all the 17,410,742 people who voted Leave had their holidays in Britain rather than going abroad.

Colin, Ilford

■ I use the M25 daily and can assure you that fewer Mercedes, BMWs and Audis on the road in 2021 is something I wouldn’t have a problem with.

Richard Thorns, East Sussex

■ I’m really getting quite tired of people being so negative about Brexit. It’s sounding like the end of the world at times. Before joining the EU, I did a degree in French and as a student lived and worked in France for a year.

Yes, there was plenty of bureaucracy, but you just got on with it. As a child/ teenager, I went several times on holiday to Europe by ferry and car – it was routine for my dad to get a green card for insurance. It’s what you did and don’t we currently make special arrangements whenever we take our car abroad? People visit Russia a lot – do they complain about getting visas for there? And that really is a difficult process. I tried once!

And regarding the issue of queuing, try arriving at Leeds Bradford airport from Spain or Portugal – the queuing to come back into my own country, on

a British passport, after a week abroad from an EU country is already a joke.

I voted to join Europe at the time when it was a manageable six countries. It made sense at the time as we were in a small group and facing similar issues. Now the whole thing is too big, expensive and unwieldy, with members having very little in common.

The EU is often talked about as one homogeneous thing but it’s (now) 27 countries each vying for their 15 minutes of fame. Europe needs Britain more than Britain needs Europe.

Heather, Bradford

■ And still people prattle on about how we are getting our freedom. We never lost it! We were part of the decision-making. It was mutual cooperation, the adult way of running things. The puerile, confrontational attitude of the Brexiteers does nobody any good.

John Lewis, Coulsdon

■ David Cameron resigned because he didn’t get the outcome he wanted and Theresa May did her best to get a bad deal. Now true Brexiteer Boris is being punished by the press for trying to do the best for the UK. At last we have a prime minister who is doing what he said he would do. The EU always wanted to punish us for leaving. Come on, Boris, give them both barrels.

James London

■ This is not a ‘road to freedom’, it is a road to disaster. Can’t quite believe everything we have spent the last 45 years building is to be torn down. And replaced with what?

Richard, via email