Brexit fudge

SIR – Nicola Sturgeon continues to pursue her dream of an independent Scotland – whose independence she can then surrender to the EU.

Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland also step forward with problems.

Meanwhile, Jean-Claude Juncker, having said that Brexit could and should be started in weeks, has now shifted to saying we need months.

Can we be forgiven for feeling that Brexit is starting to look like a fudge? Like David Cameron, Theresa May was born under Libra – a star sign that seeks balance, but so often wavers.

Roger Payne London NW3

SIR – Some of us up ’ere in t’North who voted to leave the EU are getting fed up of patronising Remainers in the South who accuse us of “having believed the lies we were peddled” by the Leave campaign; of “not having felt the benefit of belonging to the EU”; or of “being little Englanders”.

Perhaps, being geographically further from the Continent, some of us can see beyond the end of our noses and even think about the good of the country in the long run, rather than concentrating purely on our research funding, the Erasmus scheme or whether we shall be able to hire an eastern European nanny now.

Almost everyone we know, young and old, voted out – and of course each of us had our own reasons for doing so. As pensioners, we know we may never live to see the benefits of Brexit – but the next generation will.

Many of us are well-educated, and learnt about what actually happens in the EU. It would be interesting to know how many of those who sneer at us believed the lies peddled by the Remainers or even looked beyond their own interests before voting.

Margaret S Smith Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire