The modern Greek tragedy that is democracy

The Pergamon Altar, originally built in the 2nd century BC in the Ancient Greek city of Pergamon (modern day Bergama in Turkey) in north-western Anatolia. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

Tim Farron was half right in claiming that Theresa May “put her party before her country” (From hubris to humiliation, 10 June), but many Tories will feel thet she put herself before her party, with disastrous consequences.
Jeremy Beecham
Labour, House of Lords

• Nicely appropriate that, as well as democracy, the Greeks gave us the words hubris and chaos.
Chris Baker
Minety, Wiltshire

• One good thing to emerge from the debacle is that next time someone asks Mrs May what the naughtiest thing she has ever done was, she can say that she once screwed the whole of the Tory party and most of the country in a single day.
Dr Philip Long
Wivenhoe, Essex

• Can we stop talking about vicars’ daughters now, please? There are a great many of us, and we are all different.
Judith Mack
Corby, Northamptonshire

• Can it be that orange is the new blue (DUP: Party props up Tories ‘to bring stability’, 10 June)?
Vee Singleton
Framlingham, Suffolk

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