SO is Tuesday, January 15 going to go down as one of the momentous events in our history?

MPs vote this evening in the House of Commons to accept or otherwise Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal.

Unless she pulls a rabbit out of the hat tonight, her negotiations seem a disaster to me.

According to the pundits, her deal is going to be rejected by a sizeable majority, which will create even more democratic havoc running up to March 29.

When Deal Or No Deal was a TV programme it was entertaining and decisive - completely opposite to these political shenanigans. The divisions amongst us are deeply worrying - even in our robust democracy, we only see things from our own beliefs.

We are inflicted with continuous Leave scare stories. I recall when they - the elite political class - insisted we join the Euro, and also remember claims that a recession would follow a Leave referendum - so they have form in this area.

There are good things in the EU, but why have we so little faith in ourselves at present when we can reflect on 1,000 years of history when we used our instincts and were responsible for our destiny?

I just want it over with. Let’s stay in as we don’t ‘have it’ any more after 50 years of homogenised existence. Better to know the devil…

Keith Massey,

Bishopthorpe,York

The people have had their vote. Get us out

Regarding the absolute shambles at present being enacted in Parliament: if another referendum is called (and one shouldn’t keep holding referenda until one get the answer one desires) and if it results in a vote to stay as a member of the European Union, then the United Kingdom will become the laughing stock of Europe, if not the world.

No doubt the limitations on what the UK can and cannot do in the EU will be much more restrictive than anything seen during the so-called ‘negotiations’ in the exit debacle.

The people have had their vote. Get us out.

R Hutchinson,

Sherwood Grove, York

Brexit has provided great entertainment

THE whole Brexit saga has provided great entertainment during the last three years.

Political commentators and journalists, not to mention contributors to letter pages such as this, have occupied us with all manner of opinions and speculation; and it is far from over yet.

Live broadcasts from Parliament have provided some of the best of the last year’s TV – better even than Love Island, perhaps?

The invective of the Remain campaign has been as savage as it has been intense. In the event of a re-run of the referendum, it is a strategy which may come to haunt them?

The Leave camp perceive EU and Whitehall conspirators at every turn. They seek to invoke the spirit of either Churchill in 1940, or that of Tennyson’s ‘Idyll of the Kings’: “Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will, To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

The Tories have savaged each other over a subject which has been as great a source of division within their ranks as any during the last 40-plus years.

Labour, desperate for power by any means, offers a ‘solution’ which increasing sounds like Alice In Wonderland: “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

The LibDems have latched onto the pro-EU campaign with an enthusiasm verging on religious fervour.

At least with the SNP it is clear what their real agenda might be.

Malcolm Glover,

Lindsey Avenue, York