MPs have continually voted down Mrs May’s hard-fought deal yet, surprise, surprise, they have no idea what they want.

Parliament is divided into three camps: No deal brexiteers, soft brexiteers and remainers.

Add to this an intransigent EU, which is making the withdrawal process as difficult as possible.

The only person that has made any concessions has been Mrs May.

However, no concessions she could possibly make would ever win complete agreement in Parliament.

The recent series of indicative votes proved that.

The people voted to leave the EU.

The two main parties’ manifestos pledged to honour that vote. The remainers admit the EU is a self-serving, failing institution, but say it is better to be inside and reform it.

David Cameron begged for some insignificant tweaks, but came away with less.

Let’s get out and perhaps the EU will finally realise that major reforms are urgently needed before other countries decide enough is enough.

I think it is absolutely disgraceful that 17.4 million voters voted to come out of the EU and our posturing, over-paid elected people’s representatives (so called) should be betraying the British people’s decision.

Houses of Parliament? More like House of Fools!

Colin Henson, Ullswater, Woodthorpe, York

We’re in complete chaos over Brexit

Please don’t let Theresa May trigger another disaster.

We are in complete chaos and constitutional crisis and the last thing we need is another General Election when her judgement the last time created this perilous mess. We can say goodbye to the two main parties and democracy.

Mrs May made a hopeful speech on the steps of Downing Street for a better British society - but her aspirations are dust.

She may be Oxbridge educated but that doesn’t buy street smarts, personality or teach you instinct, judgement and leadership.

For three years she allowed the EU to put the country in a corner and never sought an all-party consensus at the beginning when she lost her majority.

Since the invocation of Article 50 shades of Brexit our 650 MPs cannot come up with a solution. Pathetic.

MPs should be locked in the chamber until they do agree a deal: signed, sealed and delivered before April 12 to the British people. Or cancel Brexit and all parties accept joint responsibility.

Keith Massey,

Bishopthorpe, York

We’re a Parliament and nation divided

Theresa May must resign and an election should follow as whoever replaces her has no mandate to run the country.

This whole debacle is because of Tory infighting and nothing to do with what is best for the country. I quite like the idea of deselecting all MPs prior to the next election.

First past the post was never the right way to hold a referendum and everything that has happened since shows a nation and parliament bitterly divided.

If not an election, let’s have a people’s vote, include 16s and over (who says they can’t make decisions that effect their future?) and require a 70 per cent majority for any result. Depending on the number of choices, we may need to state a 1, 2, 3 preference.

Most organisations require a substantial majority to make changes to their constitution and this is likely to be the biggest decision that will be made in our lifetime.

Jim Welsman,

Low Catton Road,

Stamford Bridge

‘Will of the people’ is a dangerous phrase

WE are constantly being told that not to ‘deliver’ Brexit would be a betrayal of democracy, and that the referendum is ‘the will of the people’.

Neither of these things is true. A binding referendum is itself a denial of democracy, because (unlike a general election) its result cannot be repealed or reversed by a different electorate, or one which has changed its mind.

To treat the 2016 result as absolute is to disfranchise the present electorate, which includes the 16 to 18-year-olds who were excluded in 2016. Current resistance to the People’s Vote is itself an indicator of democratic weakness.

The result was not ‘the will of the people’ (a dangerously totalitarian phrase). It was the will of just over half the people who bothered to vote (37 per cent of the total electorate).

After a general election there is an opposition, and an alternative. If the Conservatives have an overall majority, no one says, ‘we are all Conservatives now’. But since the vote we constantly hear of the ‘17.4 million leavers’, while over 16 million remainers have been reviled, intimidated or ignored.

After the vote Iain Duncan Smith said, ‘We are all Brexiteers now’. Is that democratic? Does it respect the will of all the people? In the words of Mrs Thatcher, ‘No. No. No.’

Peter Hollindale,

Grange Garth, York

Who is the foghorn of Westminster?

WHO on earth is the loud-mouthed individual who decides to scream and shout every time a journalist on the BBC tries to give us a report, usually on a lunch time?

It must be annoying for anyone trying to work while that’s going on.

What’s he going to do when Brexit is over?

Might I suggest he gets a job at Land’s End, warning about fog?

Tony Wash,

Windsor Drive,

Wigginton, York