We need a Final Say, not another general election

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What percentage of those who voted to leave the EU assumed we would just negotiate a date to leave and that would be that? The question on the ballot paper was so simplistic you cannot blame them if they did. Most people don’t read manifestos but are guided by the broadcasters, newspapers and social media sites that they follow. We need a confirmatory vote rather than a general election to resolve this and everyone has to abide by the outcome, whichever way it goes. That is the fairest way to proceed for all of us.

Phil Dunn
London

UK citizens living in the EU are the disenfranchised

Jeremy Corbyn rightly speaks of not wishing anyone to be disenfranchised due to the weather or immobility in a general election, but he overlooks the greatest of all disenfranchisement scandals – that of British citizens who have lived outside of the UK for more than 15 years. They lose all democratic rights as UK citizens despite having committed no crime. For those of us living in EU countries we have no say about the issue that affects us most – Brexit. Time for an urgent amendment to the proposed one-line bill.

Lynn Atterbury
Poland

Boris Johnson is like a naughty child

In his letter to Donald Tusk, Boris Johnson pleads with the EU to ignore Westminster’s mandate and listen to his own. This is the act of a dictator. Do what I say not what my country’s parliament says, pleading with the EU to use his own type of bully boy tactics.

The EU is open, welcoming and has always said it regrets the UK’s decision to leave. Why would it feed into Boris Johnson’s agenda to leave the EU come what may albeit with a new come-what-may date? The EU council could politely reply to the prime minister saying that if the withdrawal agreement has not been passed by Westminster by 31 January then it would treat the invoking of Article 50 as null and void as it had been unsuccessful.

Kicking and screaming shouldn’t get the child what he or she wants, especially when a mature parent is dealing with the child. The deliberations of the EU represents a mature parent while the prime minister represents the recalcitrant child.

Alison Hackett
Dublin

Do the honourable thing, Boris

Boris Johnson’s pledge to leave the EU at the end of October of “do or die” will now be broken. The only reason the prime minister was allowed to secure his current position was because we are all totally “brexhausted” and wished to remove the languishing no-deal Brexit uncertainty in the market. Mr Johnson’s position now is untenable and the only honourable thing that he can do now is resign or fall on his sword.

Christopher Learmont-Hughes
Wirral​

Three years of Brexit deadlock

I voted to leave but I am even more determined that we should do so after the last three years of scandalous refusal to accept the democratic decision made by the public. Get us out – preferably without the outrageous conditions of the so called deals.

Bryan Huckvale
Warwickshire

How to avoid another Grenfell

It was reported that a cherry picker was used to attempt a rescue of a man trapped on top of a 290ft chimney. As many tower blocks like Grenfell (221ft high) are well within that reach, might it not be considered that all fire brigades with tower blocks in their area be equipped or have ready access to such equipment, not only for rescue but for effective firefighting at these heights?

G Forward
Stirling