Brexit solution

THE Government is getting itself into a right pickle over Brexit. It has set itself an impossible task: trying to negotiate an exit strategy with the EU, which doesn’t want us to leave.

We should leave the EU tomorrow by repealing the 1972 European Communities Act. We would then be out and that would put us in a position where we could negotiate terms with the EU — and every other trading block.

We would be on level terms with the EU, and it could consider the advantages of a tariff- free arrangement without the overriding encumbrance of trying to force us to remain. How long before it would come pleading with us for a deal?

And what if it didn’t? While that is unlikely, we would still be better off. Tariffs on imports could be used to compensate our businesses for the tariffs on exports to the EU.

TERRY DURRANCE, Southport, Merseyside. THE Brexit negotiations remind me of the Eagles song, Hotel California: ‘You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.’ DON TOWNSHEND,

Chelmsford, Essex. WHEN I resigned from a tennis club, no one requested any contribution from me towards the cost of the new pavilion under construction or the floodlights being installed.

Equally, I did not expect any repayment on the unexpired portion of my annual membership fee. GEOFFREY DALTON,

Sevenoaks, Kent.