Everyone has an opinion on how Brexit is being handled. It seems this crazy situation has arisen solely due to the arrogance and cowardice of David Cameron.

Arrogant in the way he thought everyone would just leave things as they were at the time of the referendum, so he had no contingency plans in place for what actually did happen when the majority of those who bothered to get out and vote, voted ‘Leave’.

Cowardly because of the way he seemed to just run away after the result, leaving others to clean up the mess.

Theresa May has worked her socks off trying to work things out. She has been blocked and criticised by just about everyone every step of the way.

Our lot should have been backing her to the hilt, coming up with useful suggestions instead of continually putting her down all the time. They should all be ashamed of themselves.

When she held that General Election, she didn’t need to, and although the result wasn’t wholly what was hoped for, Mrs May is still there. She is a strong lady - let’s hope she can remain so, and afterwards get rid of all those who have gone against everything she is trying to do.

This may be a bit of naivety, but why, when there was a Leave majority,, did we not just walk and work out any deals after leaving.

That way, we could possibly have had everything sorted by now.

Janet Kitchen-Cooper,

Ashley Park Road, York

Did we fight two world wars for this?

THE Remainers, and there are a lot of them in the Parliament, are in full speed reporting doom and gloom if we go for a ‘no deal’.

Theresa May is saying her deal is the best of a bad deal.

How about we have the best of a good deal?

Her deal will lock us in with the EU for years. We will be half in and half out.

This is not what we voted for in the referendum. We voted to leave, not half leave.

If we went for a ‘no deal’ we walk away without paying this divorce bill (didn’t know we were married to the EU).

We walk away not being locked in with the EU for years to come.

There may be difficult times ahead but this country is in the best economic state that we have been in for years and there is the rest of the world to trade with.

The people of the UK are sick of the EU, especially France and Germany, telling us what to do.

People have forgotten that the reason we had the referendum was because we were very concerned that the EU would eventually and totally run our country.

Then, what was never achieved in two world wars would become a reality.

Now there’s fear-mongering for you.

Ann Cruickshank,

Huddersfield

We cannot go on with this ‘half and half’

These islands have endured many civil wars and conflicts during their long history.

But not since the General Strike of 1926 have we been more divided than now.

Those calling for a ‘people’s vote’ in June 2016 might now be viewed as misguided or even naïve.

To assume that the result would confirm the status quo certainly was.

Some might claim that, were the UK to progress further along the road to EU federalism, a vote was an absolute requirement.

Since then, however, those who voted Leave have been subjected to every derogatory ‘ist’ and ‘ism’ in the repertoire. Those for Remain, in a similar manner, have been likened to the Norwegian quislings of the Second World War.

To (mis) quote Abraham Lincoln: ‘A house divided against itself, cannot stand’.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently, half Remain and half Leave.

I do not expect the UK to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing or all the other.

There are, of course, those who are optimistic that a re-run of the ‘people’s’ vote’, will somehow heal these divisions.

I am not so sure. I wish that I were.

Malcolm J. Glover

Lindsey Avenue, York

The 'Brexit-at-any-price' cry is like reciting spells from Harry Potter

The Brexit-at-any-price voices become ever more strident as their project unravels all around them. ‘Leave means Leave’ and ‘Brexit means Brexit’ they cry, as if reciting spells in Harry Potter.

Hopefully we can all agree on one thing: those who told us leaving the EU would be easy were wrong.

In April 2016 Michael Gove explained that ‘the day after we vote to leave, we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want’.

In July 2017 Liam Fox told us that coming to a free trade agreement with the EU would be ‘one of the easiest in human history’.

Even more grandiosely Gerard Batten, UKIP’s Brexit spokesman, declared in February 2017 that trade relations with the EU could be sorted out in ‘an afternoon over a cup of coffee’.

Whatever side of the fence people sit on regarding Brexit, we all now know that these men were either guilty of self-deception or deliberately seeking to mislead the British public.

More than ever we need to park ‘project fear’ and ‘project head-in-the-sand’ and ‘project-democracy-means-only-voting-once’ and demand that all the Government advice is put before the people so that finally we can make an informed decision.

Christian Vassie,

Blake Court,

Wheldrake, York