Why frustrated Conservatives are going to vote for the Brexit Party

SIR – I have better things to do on Sunday mornings than watch Andrew Marr, but I gather Damian Hinds said on Sunday’s programme that the EU elections were likely to be a gigantic protest vote and that they would be difficult for the Government.

If he and his colleagues simply regard their thrashing next week as a protest vote, the Conservative Party is finished. I don’t like Nigel Farage and I have never been tempted to vote for Ukip, but I am certainly going to vote for the Brexit Party on Thursday week.

And unless there is a major change at the top of the Tory party (not just Theresa May but the Lidingtons, Gaukes and Rudds and the rest), I shall never vote Conservative in a Westminster election again.

Mrs May has accepted the Remainer smear that those of us who voted to leave the EU were simply trying to halt immigration and keep all those nasty foreigners out. Again and again she says that her deal will enable us to take back control of our borders as though that was the only reason we voted as we did. Immigration didn’t influence my vote. I want to be rid of the whole corrupt, illiberal, anti-democratic protection racket that is the EU. The deal she’s cooked up with her civil servants doesn’t honour that at all.

Michael Hickford Wrentham, Suffolk

SIR – On an election leaflet I have received through the post a headline says: “The only party which can get Brexit done is the Conservative Party.”

If only!

John Bryant Toddington, Bedfordshire

SIR – I thoroughly enjoyed Andrew Marr’s interview of Nigel Farage. More importantly I would like to thank Mr Marr for motivating me to decide to pay my £25 to join the Brexit Party.

Iain Lang Banbury, Oxfordshire

SIR – There are 17.4 million Leave votes to be harvested and because of Mrs May the only combine harvester in the field is the Brexit Party with Nigel Farage in the driving seat.

David Tofts Ringwood, Hampshire

SIR – Jeremy Warner (“Are we a sovereign nation, or merely Donald Trump’s poodle?” Comment, May 10) is wrong. Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, does us the service of a candid friend by reminding us that the successive actions of the Blair, Cameron and May groups of “China huggers” could put the security of Five Eyes, our most valued alliance, at risk.

I hope that, were the boot on the other foot, we would do the same. We certainly would have if it was Margaret Thatcher in charge instead of the gutless moral cowards who now pretend to run the country under the worst prime minister in our history.

Poodle? Nah! Lions led by jackals is closer to the mark. And as the jackals are about to discover, the lions have had enough.

Maj Gen Julian Thompson (retd) London SW6