WHAT an excellent letter from Linda Maggs (“Is it desirable to go it alone?”, The Press, Letters, September 18).

It encapsulates all the concerns that my late husband and I had about Brexit.

So many people voted to leave without fully knowing the consequences of our exit.

What a fine mess we have got ourselves in.

Kath Powell, Cawood Common, Selby

We’ll never regain our sovereignty

OVER the years four countries have voted against aspects of the expanding EU. France and Holland ignored the result while Denmark and Ireland reversed the decisions after re-runs. Not even the best of three.

Here the seismic shock of the Brexit vote took the Establishment completely by surprise. Despite despairing squeaks of “advisory only” the size of the anti-EU vote was too great to be brushed aside so the other ploy, re-run the referendum, is now well under way. I have no doubt that at this very

moment alternative wording and questions are being psychologically assessed.

Part of the rerun argument seems to be that the ignorant, selfish geriatrics responsible for Brexit will have died out and the deprived younger generations will do the right thing. I suspect, however, that we are all grimly hanging on until GB is fully restored.

In fairness many of us oldies feel that as we had the benefit of living, as adults, under both systems before deciding subsequent voters should have the same opportunity.

If, after a period outside the EU, life is “nasty, brutish and short” and the sky has fallen in as predicted by Christine Lagarde, governor Carney and all the other high-flying beneficiaries of the Magic Circle, then the prodigal son could always ask to return to the bosom of Brussels.

One thing is certain - to all intents and purposes as long as the EU exists in its present form we will never again have the opportunity to regain our sovereignty and self-respect.

AV Martin, Westfield Close, Wigginton, York