Brexit mess will go on for years
■ THERE’S bad news if you wish Brexit was over and done with. The chaos and waste has barely begun.
Theresa May’s agreement with the EU is nothing like a final deal. It only covers the next 21 months – and that took two years to negotiate.
If we leave the EU, we lose the benefit of around 750 international agreements with 160 countries. All these will have to be renegotiated, with no guarantee of success, just to get back to where we are today.
This is why Brexit would mean a wasted decade as we try to retrieve what we are about to throw away.
Is this really what those who voted Leave wanted? I doubt it. We have the right – and a responsibility to our children – to vote on facts, not promises. We need a People’s Vote, with the option to remain in the EU. Kevin Sullivan, Swansea
■ I’m horrified at Theresa May’s plan for Brexit. The fact she is preparing to hand over £39billion to Brussels to withdraw Britain from the EU is beyond belief. Any right-minded person would surely prefer we spent those billions on the UK’s issues with schools, hospitals, housing and infrastructure.
Jacob Rees-Mogg was speaking for millions of us when he urged the Government not to hand over a penny to Brussels. We need a leader who will stand up for Britain. Alex Wilkes Sedgley, West Mids
■ The right wing of the Conservative Party has been hugely successful in dictating UK politics over Brexit. They’ve spent decades preparing for this moment, diverting the frustration of ordinary people away from the real cause of their problems – austerity, decaying communities, poor integration of newcomers and inequality – onto external ‘enemies’ such as minorities and the EU.
Far from “taking our country back”, it is being delivered into the hands of right-wingers.
Martyn J Whittock
Bradford on Avon, Wilts
■ As a life-long Labour supporter it’s heartbreaking to watch them commit political suicide under the leadership of Corbyn. Their policy of staying in the customs union, thus leaving our borders open, just shows how out of touch they are with the British people. Corbyn’s decision to play party politics with the democratic vote may destroy Labour. Roger Grant
Thurnscoe, South Yorks
■ We hear a lot about “honouring the will” of the people who voted for Brexit, but little about the views of the 16.1 million people who voted to stay in the EU.
Stubborn Labour Party leaders waffle about the democratic vote, but they should stand up for millions of Remain voters and stop backing the lies of the conmen who led the Leave campaign. Germany and France do well from EU membership – it’s Tory policies that hold us back.
Derek Metson, Bristol
■ The short-sighted decision to select pro-EU Remainer Theresa May as PM has backfired. Leave-supporting ministers let this insipid woman take power, leaving Remainsupporting ministers more scope to engineer her delivery of a weak Brexit. Hardline Brexiteers are as much to blame for this entire fiasco as their pro-EU counterparts. Stefan Badham, Portsmouth