Brexit is the best pantomime in town. It would be funny if Berwick Kaler was starring, but it’s Prime Minister Theresa May who’s rubbed the lamp and the genie is out. I’ve used the word resilient describing her, but is she actually stubborn, deluded, an appeaser and suffering from mega hubris?

We are in the greatest crisis this country has faced since the Second World War and, two years on from the referendum, we are still in tumultuous political turmoil.

She has been incompetent and unprepared, with a useless strategy and humiliated by Brussels.

In parliament on Tuesday she lost three motions in an hour - the most serious charging ministers with contempt of the House of Commons. Unbelieveable.

Next Tuesday is the crunch vote on Theresa May’s deal - it’s hers alone as Brexit Secretaries Davis and Raab resigned - which is going to lose momentously by about 80 votes. She has failed. The Irish border “backstop” in her deal would entrap us to the EU, possibly forever. Better in the EU than this. So we think Macron and France, which currently burns its own capital, will allow our fishing rights?

I don’t relish it but decisive decisions have to be made next week in the national interest. May has to go - she is not a leader; her judgement is nil. We need a leader as Prime Minister - but who is up to it?

Keith Massey,

Bishopthorpe, York

MPs will be losers from Brexit fallout

It is beginning to look as though the Remain coalition of EU beneficiaries, aka the Establishment, will achieve its aim of keeping us shackled to Europe in one way or another and in the end shuffling off Ulster into union with Eire.

In the event it can be assumed that financiers and lawyers will continue to make money; the civil service will gain more power than ever and the Lords are bulletproof. Apart from the usual sacrificial lambs like the fishing industry, the principal losers are likely to be MPs.

The procedural shenanigans of Parliament have not endeared them to those of us who want to regain our sovereignty and global standing and sooner or later they will have to explain their actions to the electorate

The 250-year-old poem by Gray might have some relevance;

“Alas regardless of their doom, the little victims play,

“No sense have they of things to come, nor care beyond today.”

AV Martin,

Westfield Close,

Wigginton, York