Brexit Mayday Wedding bouquet
SIR – It is irrelevant what Theresa May said at Davos about free trade. The EU is determined to persecute Britain and make us pay for leaving the club.
Unfortunately, despite the backing of the majority of British voters, Mrs May is on course for abject surrender. We will only leave the Brexit negotiations with our self-respect intact if we replace the Remainers who are currently representing us with committed Brexiteers who have the backbone to fight our corner. As it is, Britain’s future is at risk of taking the course forecast by the doom-mongers.
Rod Wilkins
Dinckley, Lancashire
SIR – No, Mr President: Theresa May is not the new Churchill (report, January 25). She’s the new Chamberlain.
Rev Dr Peter Mullen
Eastbourne, East Sussex
SIR – The European Commission has warned Britain that it could not remain part of the European Arrest Warrant after Brexit (report, January 25). This is the best possible news for those who value individual freedom.
At a stroke the twin evils of arbitrary arrest without evidence and the potential for state-inspired coercion of subjects would be ended. The law of habeas corpus, currently negated by the warrant, would be restored to its full standing in the hierarchy of British justice; and extradition would, once again, be subject to credible prima facie evidence, tested in open court.
Christopher Gill
Bridgnorth, Shropshire
SIR – It is ironic that Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron see judging people by stereotypes as “the very basis of populism” (report, January 25).
I am tired of Remainers assuming that I, as a Leave voter, am old, gullible, stupid and racist. I admit to being old, but I have some defence against the second two labels; and I reject any suggestion that I am racist.
Rod Barrett
Bromley, Kent
SIR – As a registrar for two districts, I found my car would not start to get to a wedding in the other district (Letters, January 25). There was no taxi, so I was forced to thumb a lift.
Eventually an abattoir liquid fat tanker stopped and I was dropped off near the venue, running the last hundred yards or so to arrive hot, late and smelling strongly of fish and chips.
David Bright
Brackley, Northamptonshire