Members of Parliament are elected where their views and their party’s ambitions chime with most of their electorate.

Their role is to reflect the opinions and to promote the interests of their constituency.

However, now it is becoming increasingly evident that the juggernaut of egos over Brexit is driving us to a cliff-edge, no deal situation, the role of MPs must change.

The ‘divorce bill’ for Brexit will cost the country more than £40 billion.

The Prime Minister has pledged additional spending on the NHS to be partly funded by the ‘Brexit dividend’, an element the Office for Budget Responsibility has confirmed will not exist.

The EU is gearing up to increase the number of customs officials it will require to handle UK goods when we are out of the Customs Union.

The list goes on, but it is, frankly, all a bit of a shambles.

The role of MPs must change to one where they consider the greater good of their constituents and act accordingly, irrespective of party dogma. It is a spurious argument to hide behind a fig leaf and say that they are following the ‘will of the people’.

The British electorate made the Brexit vote on incomplete, inadequate and misleading information.

Now reality is beginning to dawn and the implications become obvious it is manifest that MPs, of all parties and persuasions, need to call a halt to proceedings, come back to the country and ask the simple question: “Is this what you really want?”

Time is becoming increasingly short. Now is the time for MPs to act, to collect and reflect the real opinion of the people.

Steve Kirby,

Greengage Close, Malton

Tory Government is an utter shambles

IN June 2016 in The Press I suggested David Davis would be a better leader of the Conservative Party than Theresa May. Sadly, I was wrong.

Despite Mr Davis’s undoubted integrity in supporting civil liberties, he made a mess of his department in charge of leaving the EU.

The promised impact assessments were almost non-existent. He held just one meeting with Michel Barnier in the first four months of this year.

His colleagues were no better. Several, including Boris Johnson, expressed openly anti-business sentiments when business leaders asked for clarity on what they could expect after Brexit. This isn’t what we should expect from a party that is supposed to be pro-business.

Recent resignations have been no great loss.

EU negotiators have been criticised for being difficult, as if that wasn’t predictable. But faced with a Government that doesn’t know what it wants they cannot make any progress.

I have seen Governments in trouble before, but never have I seen such an utter shambles.

Roger Backhouse,

Orchard Road,

Upper Poppleton, York

What happened to Brexit means Brexit?

WHEN I voted to join the Common Market it was so a group of countries could trade together and not fight each other.

It was changed into a European superstate governed from Brussels by unelected people.

The electorate of this country wasn’t asked to vote on their changes.

When this country did have a vote, it was to leave the EU.

The Prime Minister said “Brexit means Brexit”. That’s not 50 per cent leave, not 90 per cent leave, but to leave 100 per cent.

We leave the EU with it taking goods that come to our country.

We in turn put tax on our goods before sending them to the EU.

We all keep our own taxes and if the EU want to add further taxes to our goods, we do the same to theirs.

When we leave the EU it would look like we are still in it, the difference being we keep any tax collected, we decide any changes in law in our Parliament, we take

back sovereignty of our country.

That’s the difference.

Chris Mangham,

Lindsey Avenue,

Acomb,York