How can MPs not see how disastrous their infighting is for the country?

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Thursday 15 November 2018 19:06 GMT
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Theresa May is causing the UK to be an international laughing stock
Theresa May is causing the UK to be an international laughing stock

To put Brexit in simple terms, we declared war on our closest allies in the vague hope of finding allies elsewhere – something we cannot do effectively until a ceasefire has been reached.

At the start of the war we capitulated, and are now considering offering unconditional surrender to our friends and neighbours who are bemused by the bizarre action and complete lack of reason and direction.

As this incredible scenario unfolds, senior officers are seeking to disrupt the leadership with a series of minor coups aimed at their individual advancement seemingly unaware of the impending disaster to which they are contributing significantly.

It is becoming so destructively incompetent that the only parallel scenario I can see is if we had decided to declare war on the United States, France, Poland and Switzerland on 5 June 1944.

Matt Minshall
Norfolk

Theresa May is causing the UK to be an international laughing stock. She should resign immediately. Show some dignity, for god’s sake.

Alan Barbour
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Provided with the opportunity to give the government and parliamentary establishment a good kicking, some (not all) of the voters took it. Voting for Brexit let loose the bull in the china shop.

With one prime minister down, another on the way and parliament in chaos, they have achieved their objectives. Hopefully lessons have been learned about what happens if voters are ignored and taken for granted. Time to move on and address the real problems of inequality in the country.

In the past few months we’ve learned a lot about Europe. If we want to change it and its effect on us, then better we remain and use our influence to reform from within.

Dave Thomas
Bristol

I guess Theresa May et al do not fully grasp the complexity of the world we live in and the essence of good governance.

A representative government should endeavour to serve societies that are globalised, multilingual, technologically mediated, ethnically and linguistically diverse, and are in tune with diversity, intergenerational solidarity, environmental sustainability, the responsibility for posterity, intellectual creativity, nomadic mobility, social justice, non-linearity, hospitality, conviviality and broadening the horizons of hope and knowledge. Regrettably, Brexit is an antithesis to all those principles.

Dr Munjed Farid Al Qutob
London NW2

Back in 2003, the late Charles Kennedy was vilified by many in the media and in the House of Commons when he opposed the Iraq War. He was described as “Charlie Chamberlain” by Sir Nicholas Soames. Nobody in politics would now disagree that his position was the right one. He stuck to his position despite the personal abuse, because he knew what was right for the country.

Today, MPs are now about to have to make a difficult decision which will require courage.

A number of MPs have said that no deal is better than a bad deal. Those MPs will not personally feel the pain of lost jobs, closed business and lost opportunities for families like mine, which would not exist if we did not have free movement.

Hindsight will be no good if we end up with chaos at our ports and airports, our currency devalues further and medicines cannot be delivered to patients. Hindsight will be no good if we cannot repatriate foreign criminals because we do not have access to security databases.

Hindsight will be no good if we have food shortages. Look carefully and you will not find an alternative plan from any of the ministers who have resigned.

Please do not let history repeat itself. It is time for us to admit that Brexit was undeliverable as it was promised to us. It is time to give the crying baby back to the people. It is time for a people’s vote.

Chris Key, chair, St Margarets and Twickenham Riverside Liberal Democrats

Theresa May has had quite the morning as four of her ministers resigned over her calamitous Brexit “deal”.

One of the resignations came from Brexit secretary Dominic Raab.

It was just a week ago that Raab confessed he had only just understood the important of the Dover-Calais crossing for UK trade.

Where can Theresa May find a candidate of Raab’s calibre to take his place?

But cometh the hour, cometh the man: maybe she’ll find him in the form of Yoshitaka Sakurada, the Japanese minister for cybersecurity.

While May was struggling in the UK’s parliament today came the news that Sakurada had confessed to the Japanese parliament that he doesn’t actually use computers and doesn’t know what a USB is.

An opposition Japanese MP declared: “It’s unbelievable that someone who has not touched computers is responsible for cybersecurity policies.”

It’s almost as unbelievable as a Brexit minister who doesn’t understand the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing.

There you have it Theresa May – make Yoshitaka Sakurada an offer to come over and negotiate your Brexit deal.

You might as well.

Sasha Simic
London N16

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