Brexit ref2

Your columnist, Bill Jamieson, like so many gung-ho Brexiteers, seems incapable of grasping that Brexit has not in fact come to pass yet (Scotsman, 14 December).

Nobody, least of all the Cabinet, has an inkling what Brexit will look like in the final analysis. Any eventual deal, and I for one very much hope for a ‘soft landing’, not only requires a vote by Parliament but should also be the subject of a second referendum. Did anyone really have an idea what they were voting for first time round?

If a ‘hard landing’ is agreed or worse still, a no deal, then I fear Britain will indeed be looking into the abyss.

TORQUIL MACLEOD Drumnadrochit, Inverness.

I was amused by Bill Jamiesons’ article (‘A Dangerous Lack of Trust in Leaders’ , Scotsman, 14 December).

He describes how Tory rebellious backbenchers are turned into gibbering loyalists when the word Corbyn is mentioned. Well, twice now the government has had to surrender to united voices calling for a return to parliamentary sovereignty.

Jeremy Corbyn’s heart is in the right place. If we had a centre Labour team, it would be simply a Cameron government in disguise. Corbyn offers a chance to renovate the whole economy and society – a total alternative. And more economists agree with Labour’s plans than you’ll find agreeing with Brexit. But then who needs experts when the strong and stable can drive for such a hard bargain with Europe, as we have just seen. Sceptics who prefer Corbyn to the present lot will all be proved wrong in the end!

ANDREW VASS Corbiehill Place, Edinburgh