It’s time for a second EU referendum

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Many people now wish they had voted in 2016 (Getty Images)

The entire UK political swarm, apart from the party running Scotland, is reading the public wrong about Europe.

Many people now wish they had voted in 2016, just in case too many alehouse British patriots had been mobilised. By a hair’s breadth, they had. Many who understood and valued their European citizenship stampeded to become Irish.

It looked at first as if only Conservative MPs and MSPs were wary of the Cummings police, which filleted the Westminster parliamentary Conservative Party of any real, noticeable, pro-European leaders.

But now all large parties in England, and their Edinburgh MSPs, are intimidated by Johnson’s general election success of 2019.

They are all afraid, but the intoxication of that triumph has vanished.

Hold the European referendum again.

Tim Cox

Bern

National emergency

We are well used to news reports showing government ministers clutching bundles of papers, striding self-importantly to meetings of Cobra to deal with national emergencies, ranging from extreme weather to Covid.

Our ambulance and A&E services have been dangerously underperforming nationwide for weeks, months and arguably years and have now practically collapsed. We learn that some 200,000 patients have been harmed already this year. Why is Cobra not in permanent session to deal with what is clearly a national emergency? Is it just too difficult?

David Irving

Haverfordwest

Time in opposition

Given the wreckage that is the country, it seems to me that the smartest move for the next leader of the Tory party is to call a snap general election – and lose it.

They have run out of excuses and need a period in opposition. They can come back in five years and carry on as before, and blame all the ongoing problems on the opposition – a tactic they have used very effectively in the past.

Joanna Pallister

Durham City

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Get Brexit Undone

If a shallow politician such as Liz Truss can be feted for altering her stance on Brexit from one hemisphere to the other, surely sensible and equally ambitious politicians should recognise the folly of their past misconvictions and get Brexit undone?

David Smith

Taunton

Tax benefits

Why does everyone see tax as a punishment? Tax is what we pay to live in a civilised and fair society. We all benefit in the end.

Jim Alexander

Maidenhead