A botched Brexit

SIR – Dr Robert Carmichael (Letters, October 27) suggests that having Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister would be more damaging than a botched Brexit, and that this is a reason to continue to vote Conservative.

I fear he may not have fully considered the consequences, for our democracy and our freedoms, of continuing to vote for a party that disregards the largest democratic vote in our history. If one vote’s outcome may be ignored, why not another? And if a party that fails to act on our votes faces no consequences for doing so, why should it pay any attention to our other needs?

Failing to implement a Brexit that is recognised as such by those who voted for it will ruin not only the Tory party but our democracy itself. Phil Coutie

Exeter, Devon

SIR – A Corbyn government could be voted out in four years (or even earlier) but the consequences of a botched Brexit would last for decades. We would be shackled to the EU with little power over it. A proper Brexit is what we voted for and what we should get. Martin Gaskill

Culcheth, Cheshire

SIR – I was interested to read that Alan Sked (Letters, October 27) plans to create a new party, as I have felt for some time that politically I have nowhere to go.

Labour has veered to the far Left and is once again in thrall to the unions, promoting the politics of envy, division and victimhood. The Conservatives seem to be “Labourlite”, with their failure to fight for this country in the Brexit negotiations and their social engineering agenda. The Liberal Democrats are dead in the water.

I consider myself to be, like many people, an old-fashioned liberal – fiscally conservative but socially liberal. I’d like a government that enables people and businesses to succeed, ensures fair play, provides a safety net for those who can’t (not won’t) look after themselves – then gets out of the way.

If Professor Sked can form such a party he’d have my vote and I suspect millions of others from people who want to get on quietly with their lives without officious meddling from the state. Alison Levinson

Hastings, East Sussex