I want to deal with the tub thumping for the ‘will of the people’ on The Press letters page of February 27.

J Morris (Our MPs are taking voters for idiots) states that UK businesses need the ‘certainty’ of a no deal Brexit: a grand oxymoron where two halves of a statement clash spectacularly.

For sure businesses need certainty but a no deal Brexit will give us the wrong sort of certainties, ranging from substandard foodstuffs and privatised health ‘services’ to poverty.

A V Martin’s £15 billion January budget surplus is mainly explained by the January tax returns deadline.

The good news could be that the EU is bringing in regulation to crack down on tax evasion.

That’s only good news if we’re in the EU of course - except for the ERG’s Rees-Mogg and others who’ve been busy moving their millions.

EU legislation comes in in April. Pro-Brexiteers are working on a March 29 exit. Go figure, as Americans say.

G Robb says MPs should ‘honour the result (Brexit vote) whatever the outcome’.

This is asking MPs and the British public to plough on regardless of, for example, the future of Ireland, the issue of the supply of life-sustaining drugs and more.

Finally G Robson quotes Disraeli on expectations. Brexit has proved that many of us were seriously wanting in our knowledge of the true workings of the EU. Disraeli said: “The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”

Dot Nicholson,

Fishergate, York

Meeting of minds on the political stage

US Professor J K Galbraith was a leading participant in the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference which set up, amongst other things, the World Bank and the IMF to manage the shattered global economy after the war.

One of his dicta uncannily foretold our Mrs May’s method of negotiation: “Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.”

This might also apply to the Trump/Kim relationship.

AV Martin,

Westfield Close,

Wigginton,York