Should Nigel Farage lead our exit from EU?

HAVING taken part in negotiations on many occasions, I’ve never preempted those vital and tricky sessions by deliberately insulting and ridiculing the people I’m going to be talking to a few weeks or months down the line, as Nigel Farage has done (Mail). Any hopes we may have had of the EU’s negotiators giving us a decent deal went up in smoke when he was less than half-way through his tirade to the EU Parliament, and by the end, I was wondering if we’d see just how good this proposed EU army was going to be. I agree with the UK leaving the EU, and voted as such, but for Farage to deliberately insult those who will be sitting opposite our negotiating team was the height of stupidity. Mr Farage, shut up!

PhIlIP CODD, Manchester. HoW dare Nigel Farage seek to represent us in the European Parliament with a dated Bob Monkhouse joke. It was tasteless and crass. Most Brits wish to be represented in a civilised, reasonable fashion, even in the face of adversity. We are, after all — European. Brexit is already looking like a ‘hissy fit’ and the vote was hardly an overwhelming mandate. I, and many others are regretting where we placed our vote.

JaN MIllINGTON, southborough, Kent. NOW that arch liar Nigel Farage has managed, after 17 years, to get what he wanted, is it too much to expect him to disappear into the sunset? No more Chaplinesque posturing would be a blessing.

wIlF TalBOT, Bewdley, worcs. NIGEl Farage would be the best person to negotiate our exit from the EU. He’s been an MEP for 17 years and is probably best placed to understand the workings of an unelected body such as the EU. I’m sure that at lunch he would be eating fish and chips while drinking a pint of lager instead of pate de foie gras and £1,000-a-bottle champagne.

BaRRY laRKINs, leeds.