Philip Hammond claims that no deal would put the country back 10 years (Report, 17 September), whereas Theresa May claims even with a no deal “our best days are ahead of us”. It is revealing that she uses such inane register as “our best days”. If this is the level at which the PM operates, pulling glib, meaningless phrases out of the air, then what is ahead of us?
Well we know in a no deal. Has she forgotten all the warnings about queues of lorries, and stockpiling food and medicine, which implies rationing, delays in transport across the country and the army on the streets to quell unrest and protest?
There seems to be a dysfunctional process in cabinet. Do they not talk to one another? The key players seem to be ploughing a lone furrow leading to contradictions. Then an interviewer asks the PM if she agrees with her chancellor and the question is ducked. One must shakes one’s head when reading that there are plans to provide Portaloos for stranded lorry drivers outside Dover in the event of hold-ups. Our best days indeed!
John Edgar
Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire
• Over the past few months, discussion has been popping up in Dutch newspapers over whether Brexit may yet not materialise. And now we hear that London’s mayor has demanded a new referendum. In my opinion the European commission may have to opt for the immediate installing of a work group to prepare Europe for the situation in which the ever perfidious Albion wishes to return to the EU fold. It will have to formulate tough conditions for a Brexit U-turn. One would be the immediate introduction of the euro in the UK. Others would be: driving on the right, the banning of the stubborn use of imperial measures as from now, bowler hats only at carnival, and John Cleese for PM.
Ludo Grégoire
Leiden, The Netherlands
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