LETTERS DEBATE: Is Brexit now dead?

She has made terrible political decisions going back to her time as Home Secretary - so how has she survived the past two years coping with seismic political pressure on such a tumultuous scale? How does she get out of bed in the morning?

Brexit is now dead. As a “leaver” I am disappointed and angry, but the “B” word is now so toxic and damaging to our political system and creating a dangerously divided country, that it cannot proceed.

If business suffers - that creates the wealth we rely on - we’ve had it.

The present mess left by David Cameron is insurmountable. He should have been forced to see it through to the bitter end.

The referendum was the right thing but the wrong time. We do not have the calibre of politician and May has delivered the final coup de grâce. We’ve been stitched up.

An exit document of 585 pages says it all about the EU. If it were still the EEC, trade based, we would not have been in this cataclysmic turmoil.

An hour must be the new norm in politics. By the time this letter is printed, will May still be Prime Minister?

Enough is enough with this madness. We’ve lost.

Mrs May should have used her hero, gritty Yorkshireman Geoffrey Boycott, who would have won the Test and declared.

Keith Massey,

Bishopthorpe, York

A career in PR is surely next for PM

A TOP job awaits our Prime Minister at any first class public relations agency.

Her ability to project illusion as fact is supreme.

Peter Rickaby,

West Park, Selby

Let’s urge our MP to back Brexit deal

DEAR fellow constituents living in York Central.

Today I urge you to write to our Labour MP Rachael Maskell, who is threatening to vote against the Brexit deal coming to Parliament within the next month.

I accept the constituency voted to ‘Remain’ in the EU, but the nation’s decision as a whole was to ‘Leave’.

This does not have to mean crashing out of the EU without a deal. But threats of voting against the Brexit deal makes that more and more likely by the day. There can be no turning back.

The choice is clear: it’s ‘Deal or No Deal’, and it is in the interest of us all to leave with a deal that respects not just the desires of the 52 per cent of leave voters, but the 48 per cent of the electorate who voted to remain.

Labour, including Maskell, is frustrating an orderly Brexit and I’m afraid will lead us off a cliff-edge.

As a 19-year-old who will have to live through the implications of Brexit, a Brexit I would have admittedly voted for if I could have in 2016, we need to make sure we get this right. And the deal negotiated is the best possible deal.

It is far from perfect but that was never going to be achievable.

Please write to Ms Maskell and urge her to back this sensible, pragmatic deal in the national interest.

Thomas Lockwood,

Percy’s Lane, York

EU meddling shows we’re right to leave

I SEE that the European Court of Justice has ruled that the UK should not be allowed to pay power plants to stay open. This scheme is a fundamental part of the Government’s plan to avoid power shortages in a severe winter.

Surely this sort of meddling indicates how we are at the mercy of a continental legal system answerable to no one and apparently set upon punishing us for our temerity in wanting to leave.

A V Martin,

Westfield Close,

Wigginton,York

Will we ever have an honest Parliament?

THE letter by Mike Huffington castigating Tim Murgatroyd (Economy crashed under Labour, Letters, November 5) was typical of far-right rhetoric.

Mr Huffington has been well and truly indoctrinated into thinking the Conservative Party has any regard for low income working class people.

Whenever has a Conservative government thought of the less well-off members of our population?

I am not a Jeremy Corbyn fan either.

The Labour Party blew it for me when the interim Gordon Brown took over as PM from the champagne socialist Tony Blair.

Will we ever have a trustworthy, honest Parliament? Most likely never, is the answer.

Mr J Holroyd,

Chaloners Road, York