The Prime Minister needs to stop Brussels bullying and blackmailing the UK into agreeing to a bad deal.

The EC is telling us that, if we do not agree to their terms, the billions of pounds they are demanding from us on leaving will increase. We should not pay them anything.

Brussels have held us back from an agreement for more than a year in the hope we will give up.

They know that other EC members are looking very closely at our retreat in the hope they will be able to follow us and Brussels is frantic not to let this happen.

That is why they are bullying us and trying to scupper our plans to leave or getting us to agree to such a bad deal that we will still be tied to the EC but have no votes on anything.

If this happens it may prevent other EC countries from taking the same action as us.

We need to stand up to Brussels and tell them what our terms are in leaving and if they refuse to accept this then we need to walk away with no deal. I know this is a frightening prospect but French borders will make us pay by holding transport up whichever deal is done.

There are dozens of other countries in the world we can have trade deals with.

Brussels will make life difficult for us whatever happens because that is the nature of the beast.

Ann Cruickshank,

Laund Road,

Huddersfield

Brexit betrayal worse than staying in EU

THE latest Brexit betrayal by the Prime Minister is actually worse than staying in the EU. She wants us to stay in a form of the EU customs union subject to the rules of the ECJ with no way out unless the EU allow us to leave, which they will never do because the EU does not want competition on trade from a neighbouring large economic power like the UK.

We should leave now with no deal and no delay. If they want a free trade deal let them knock on our door. Otherwise we will trade on World Trade Organisation rules and the UK would be £8,000,000,000 a year better off because we have such an enormous trade deficit with the EU.

Mrs May is proposing nothing short of a total betrayal of the biggest democratic vote in the history of our great country.

Let’s stand up for the 17.4 million who voted for Brexit. Let the voice of those who went, informed and educated, out to vote be heard – we must have the Brexit we voted for.

Unless Brexit is delivered, unless we are a fully free independent country again, then democracy in this country is dead.

Judith Morris,

Moorland Road, York

Our PM is making the best of a bad job

I totally agree with David Lewis (We’ve been taken for fools, Letters, November 16) who details the foolish decisions which have brought us in this country to the present crazy situation with regards to Brexit.

Ever since David Cameron thought that the common sense of the British public would prevail in his referendum things have gone from bad to worse.

Theresa May is doing what she can to make the best of a bad job. She should be supported in the very difficult task of getting the best deal possible. The only alternative could be a new referendum when facts should be clearly stated and no campaigning allowed (by such as Boris Johnson). Perhaps then we might avoid being dubbed as fools by the rest of the world.

Jean Frost,

Heworth, York

The penny is starting to drop for Leavers

Finally the architects of Leave are gate-crashing the real world in a jaw-dropping, fist-chewing, toe-curling spectacle of giant pennies dropping from a leaden sky.

Arch-Brexiter Nadine Dorries MP, commenting on May’s Brexit deal, explained that “this is a very sad place to be. But unfortunately the future of the country and of our relationship with Europe is at stake. This deal gives us no voice, no votes, no MEPs, no commissioner”.

Doh!

Only last week Leave voter and ex-Brexit secretary Dominic Raab admitted that he “hadn’t quite understood” how much the UK trade relies on the Dover-Calais crossing, and nanny’s darling Jacob Rees-Mogg confessed it could be up to 50 years before the UK sees any benefit from leaving.

To the rescue mop-headed genius Boris Johnson, who declared that compared with our EU membership May’s negotiated deal will leave the UK in a state of vassalage because “we will have no control”.

It doesn’t bother Boris that the logic of his own argument reveals that as of now we do have control. Even the blessed Nadine Dorries can now explain to him that as EU members, we have a voice, votes, MEPs and a commissioner.

What a farce.

Christian Vassie,

Blake Court, Wheldrake, York