Captive May dooming us to no deal

From: Coun Paul Andrews (Ind), The Beeches, Great Habton, York.

THE more I read the papers the more I wonder if Theresa May is actually in control. The impression I get is of a Prime Minister whose every genuine effort at reaching an agreement is immediately sabotaged by the members of her own party – for whatever reason.

Arch-Brexiteers Boris Johnson and David Davis never seemed to make sufficient progress in negotiations, and perhaps this is why Mrs May took on the job herself.

Before the 2015 election, her party made great efforts to encourage Ukip members and votes into the Conservative fold. They seem to have succeeded to the extent that Mrs May is now their prisoner.

It would be re-assuring to believe that Mrs May is “running down the clock” just as a negotiating tactic. However, the truth may be that she is being forced into a position where a hard Brexit is the intended and inevitable objective of her captors. This is the reality which we all have to face.

From: Brian Sheridan, Lodge Moor, Sheffield.

“GET us out and away from these idiots give us what we asked for forget this Brexit rubbish out means out. Two years later and your (sic) still running around like headless chickens” (Feedback, The Yorkshire Post, February 12). Are sentence construction and punctuation now a dying art? Without correct punctuation, speech cannot be successfully transferred to the page, as proved by the above gibberish.

From: Phyllis Capstick,

Hellifield.

IN this country of ours, we pay politicians to carry out the wishes of the majority of the electorate.

But instead we have rotten politicians trying to sort out rotten deals when the result of the referendum, over two-anda-half years ago, was to leave the European Union.