The great Brexit swindle

I have spent years disregarding conspiracy theories and believing almost all to be flights of fancy. However the performance of our governing classes and civil servants with regard to Brexit make it almost impossible to believe that there is not one here.

We have spent years now being told that “Brexit means Brexit” or that we would get a good deal or leave on World Trade Organization terms as free men and women. Instead we have had Project Fear from the Bank of England, the Chancellor and mealy-mouthed MPs interested only in their own progress to power.

The EU has given us its terms knowing full well Parliament will reject them. It then expects us to reconsider our vote to leave and beg on bended knee to remain.

At the next general election can we have “None of the above” on the ballot paper so that I may vote without spoiling it? Michael Tarrant, Welling, Greater London