Democracy is at stake in respecting the result of the EU referendum
SIR – Respecting the will of the majority is not a technicality. It is matter of honour, on which the durability of democracy – in all parts of the Union – depends.
The EU desperately needs our cash. It is surely time we told its members that they can take our money on our terms, or they’ll be the ones to face the cliff edge and crash out. Lord Shinkwin (Con)
London SW1
SIR – In the case of the Prime Minister, it seems that once a Remain supporter, always a Remain supporter.
She will go down in history as going against the majority in the EU referendum and as the killer of the Tory party if she insists on staying in the customs union and single market. Suzanne Greenhill
Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire
SIR – Brexit means Brexit. Except when it doesn’t. Nigel Adams
Hertford
SIR – What has happened to the principle “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”?
The EU, seemingly, believes that everything given by Britain will remain theirs.
The clock is also ticking for Michel Barnier, the chief EU negotiator, as, if no deal is agreed, the EU will lose what it has so far gained in our concessions. Bryce Mitchell
Chorleywood, Hertfordshire
SIR – It’s time that the Prime Minister realised that high-quality fudge is already produced and exported from this country without her efforts to add to it by her senseless proposals about the customs union. Mike Carrivick
Wokingham, Berkshire
SIR – Ireland already maintains a border with its EU neighbour Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom. There are roving checkpoints where drivers of United Kingdom vehicles on which the appropriate Irish tax has not been paid are given a large on-the-spot fine, or the vehicles are impounded. Roy Mcleod
Bexleyheath, Kent
SIR – Doesn’t Leo Varadkar, the Irish Prime Minister, understand that “must” is the very word we are getting away from? Tim Topps
Oxford
SIR – Is this the country that lost countless dead to secure a free and democratic Europe in two world wars, that gave the world the industrial revolution, that led the world once in aviation, medicine and commerce?
Whatever we were, since the Brexit referendum we have been shown up as an appeasing vassal state to the EU with a fifth column that won’t accept democracy. British democracy is dead if we cannot swiftly enforce a referendum decision. No ifs, no buts. Philip Congdon
La Bastide d’engras, Gard, France