How to make the best of what we’ve now got

Dr Darracott’s comment on Brexit made me reflect (Viewpoint, November 24).

Like him, I was a remainer, and my initial response to the referendum was the same as his: to get over and make the best of it.

I voted to remain partly because I thought that undoing and replacing 40 years’ of legislation with all its 40 years of attendant case law, together with negotiating numerous replacement trade agreements from a weak position, was well beyond the capabilities of our politicians.

But, on reflection, I now wonder if just rolling over and accepting the inevitable is the sensible option, and not particularly what I like to think of as British.

Speaking from a purely laymen’s position, would it not be much easier, let alone financially better, to negotiate a BRINO (Brexit in name only)?

Would this not save a huge amount of money and diverted and wasted effort?

I am sure the EU would prefer us in, but we would need a strong leader and team to effect this. It would no doubt be anathema to some, but apparently only about 32 per cent now think that leaving was a good idea.

Maybe, after seven years, people are less partisan and more even-minded now. ROBERT MANDEVILLE

Hockett Lane Cookham Dean