I'm striking because of you, Nicky Morgan, not because I don't care about my pupils

Nicky Morgan – in regards to your comments on BBC Breakfast this morning – don't you dare tell me I don't care about the children that I teach.

I am striking because I care about them. I am striking because Westminster doesn't listen to or trust our opinions. I am striking because the Ealing LEA is considered to be one of the best, yet you could still take all of the schools away from their control. I am striking because you – not us – are playing politics with the future of our children. I am striking because the children are going to suffer when our school can't afford as many TAs and teachers, and when they have 34 classmates in the room with them.

I am striking because I watched our Year Six students work so hard to keep up with the changing SATs, yet they will undoubtedly still be told they are not good enough, because you need the statistics to show that we are failing them. I am striking because we are sick and tired, both literally and metaphorically.

Menna Bevan
London, W5

With the comment from the Attorney General that they could have another referendum, would this mean that at a general election if the party I wanted did not win could we have another and another until the party I wanted was put in government?

This does not sound democratic to me: it is more like the way the EU works – if in doubt just keep voting until you get the result you want. That was the whole point of the referendum in the first place as the EU is not democratic. So please can we just all start to pull together to make this a great country again.

Grete Petrie
Address supplied

This is about what was previously unthinkable becoming thinkable and then coming into reality. Two/three years ago a referendum on EU membership was unthinkable, a few people talked about it persistently enough, it became thinkable and now it has become a reality.

What was unthinkable and is now thinkable is the status of EU citizens in the UK. There are a great many in this country, a significant amount of which are totally integrated into UK life, friends, colleagues, partners, lovers, husbands, wives, parents, and children. There is a lot of evidence that they are of overall benefit to the UK.

To question their status is unthinkable but now empowered by the referendum party leaders are now openly talking about reviewing their status. With events progressing as they are this could become a reality.

How is that going to happen? Each person summoned to the police station to have their status assessed. Unthinkable yet this could happen.

It is offensive to me who sees the UK as a fair and free place to live. I love this country and am not prepared to see it become a divided and discriminatory place, that road leads to danger for everybody.

Barty Meredith-Hardy
Wadhurst

We have not seen the last of Farage. Article 50 has not been signed and once the population start to feel the cold blast of 'freedom', is unlikely to be enacted. Step up the defender of democracy, like some latter day Arthurian saviour. To battle for freedom, democracy, St. George and penury.

Mark Grey
Fleet

A decision on whether Article 50 can be invoked by the government without a vote in Parliament should be made clear before any leadership battle in either party can be deemed legitimate. Given that the two main protagonists in the Leave campaign are no longer involved in taking forward what they espoused there needs to be certainty about the position of the next Prime Minister. If it falls to Parliament to invoke Article 50, Parliament may decide that the referendum result was influenced by false claims and given the narrowness of the vote should not be adhered to without further consultation.

A vote in Parliament to decide whether the next Prime Minister should invoke Article 50 or call for another referendum is possible. Given the importance of the issue Parliament as elected representatives of all the people should respond by debating it now so that our political parties to elect leaders who can be sure of the way forward.

Andrew Erskine
Abergavenny

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the leading Brexiteers won the referendum on a forest of lies and a flood of anti-immigrant rhetoric so why have they now reversed direction and are leading the fight to give EU citizens already here cast iron assurances that they are welcome to remain here without impediment for as long as they want without a quid pro quo from the EU?

Is it because they just do not understand how poor a hand the UK already has in the forthcoming exit talks or do they just want to punish those Brits living in the EU for voting overwhelmingly for Remain? Or just perhaps they are already conscious of the error of their ways and are seeking to make the reality of Brexit so unpalatable that Parliament just has to call another referendum.

Roger Chapman
Keighley