Brexit in now an unholy mess, thanks to Boris

WHAT an unholy mess Boris and co have caused! He has used inexcusable language such as “betrayal”, “vassal state” (which incidentally took place on the continent during WWII) , “surrender act” and much more.

He has the sheer audacity to condemn others in the House for criticising him in the most severe terms after the way he has treated them.

I voted remain but, like many others, I accept the result of the referendum, even though the campaign was shot through on both sides with misleading lies and half-truths.

That is what we all should do now. However, Johnson is still probably misleading us all by making a halfhearted attempt to get a deal for us to be able to continue to live in a country where politicians tell us the truth, where people will keep their jobs and hospitals will continue to run properly.

I think he really hopes that the EU will tell us that a deal is no longer possible because he is asking them purposely for too much. He is representing the people who voted leave and the remain voters are in no way represented.

Many of the hard-right Tories who want a no-deal Brexit are letting us all down in this country.

An election before a deal is struck will again give Farage yet another chance to win seats, and for a party with an infinitely small manifesto to start to control us will be a disaster of unimaginable proportions.

GW Hopkins

Merthyr Tydfil

Should we all be worried about this?

I am getting rather concerned about the Welsh Assembly’s latest “big deal”, the loudly trumpeted announcement that they are “in discussions with Ineos” to build fourwheel-drive vehicles at the soon-to-close Ford factory in Bridgend.

I am often sceptical of the assembly’s “big ideas”; after all, we have had numerous money sinkhole fiascos here, such as “Circuit of Wales”, and the dubious financial dealings currently surrounding the “Afan Leisure complex”...not to mention many others – need I mention the Great Forestry Giveaway? – the assembly does not have the best reputation for financial probity.

So I tried looking up the Grenadier project online, and found a load of websites entitled “projekt grenadier” which either fail to open on my computer, or show student design competitions with no mention of Ineos, or show photographs of the Land Rover Defender, but absolutely nothing substantive about this “project”...this is rather concerning.

Has the assembly bought another pig-in-a-poke?

Can the Welsh taxpayers be assured that very careful scrutiny will be made before they give any more of our hard-earned taxes away?

We have spent more than enough on “magic beans” in Wales.

Ian McNicholas Waunlwyd, Ebbw Vale

Beware the fate of the last challenger

THE last king – Charles I – who believed in the Divine Right of Kings, challenged the sovereignty of Parliament, lost and was then beheaded.

Can we expect nothing but the same for a Prime Minister whose challenge of the sovereignty of Parliament was unanimously deemed to be unlawful by the 11 Supreme Court judges, or are we living in more tolerant times?

Colin Evans

Penarth

Leavers have what they wished for

JEREMY Corbyn is afraid of a general election while Boris Johnson is afraid of another referendum.

Then there is the ultimate hypocrite in Steve Baker MP complaining that Parliament is holding Boris Johnson as hostage when in fact he and his right-wing Tory cronies held Theresa May hostage and failed to vote for the deal agreed by her government and the EU.

The only thing left in the Johnson political armoury is a general election, his last roll of the dice.

The leavers campaign for the sovereignty of Parliament, and it has spoken. The leavers wanted our law, courts to have control over our laws and they have spoken. I suppose Brexiteers could make a plea to the European Court of Appeal. Andrew Nutt

Bargoed

I voted remain but, like many others, I accept the result of the referendum

Chirac was a good, if flawed, individual

THE death of Jacques Chirac at the age of 87 was not unexpected.

This admittedly controversial political leader, who spent a total of 12 years as French President, and a much longer earlier period as Mayor of Paris, as well as his having been Prime Minister in between, seems to have inspired a good deal of political affection and approval in the end, in spite of his implication in financial irregularities on a very large scale.

In my view he could be admired specifically for his opposition to the Iraq War in 2003, and the US critics who described the French as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”, at the time just showed their ignorance and sheer nastiness.

He was also admired for admitting the complicity of the French Vichy regime in the crimes of the German occupiers vis-à-vis the Jewish population of France.

Although a flawed individual in a number of ways, on balance there were some quite major things to be said in his favour compared say with one or two of his political successors as French President.

Michael O’Neill

Penarth