Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit plan is sensible – we need a People’s Brexit

Like many on the hard left I voted for Brexit to get away from the utterly undemocratic nature of the EU and to restore some sovereignty to Parliament and that of course is precisely why there has to be Parliamentary oversight of Brexit. After the out vote it became crystal clear that nobody not even the Brexiteers knew exactly what Brexit truly meant and every one of them implied it was a given that our country would have access to the single market.

But people today including Theresa May talk about Brexit as though we could stick a big outboard engine at the bottom of Land's End and steer the country into the Atlantic. Well nobody voted for that and it's really important that Parliament is involved in deciding how we leave.

The people of this country ought to know what the Tories are and what social class they represent. Their version of Brexit will be a Tory Brexit in which the interests of the super rich and powerful and in particular the City of London and its corporations will be prioritised.

We need a thorough Parliamentary debate and hopefully an all party consensus created to develop a People's Brexit that'll prioritise the needs of ordinary people.

To that end the proposals made by Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn are eminently sensible.

Mark Holt
Liverpool

Now that it has been accepted that only parliament has the right to initiate Article 50, it is also time to debunk the fallacy that that any disclosure of the government’s Brexit objectives is a serious negotiating weakness by the UK.

On 9 May 1982, in a speech at Eureka College, President Reagan proposed that the US and Soviet Union enter into negotiations in order to reduce the number of nuclear weapons. He thereby publicly disclosed the US negotiating position. He proposed a two-step plan whereby the US and the Soviet Union reduce by one-third their arsenals of nuclear warheads to about 5,000 each. His proposal was for the Soviet Union to give up its 3-to-1 lead in total weapons payloads and in return, the US would scale back its research and production in the areas in which it held a technological advantage.

Today, with the benefit of hindsight, we do not see this speech a gaff whereby President Reagan let slip the US negotiating position. Instead this speech has been labelled by some as “The Beginning of the End of the Cold War.”

It is time for Theresa May to show some statesmanship and disclose the UK’s Brexit objectives.

Panos Gregory
London

Nigel Farage’s position on the EU referendum, which is shared by many leave voters, makes no sense (“Nigel Farage forced to admit that the EU referendum was only ‘advisory’", 6th November). On the one hand he has admitted that the EU Referendum was only “advisory” (this is to his credit as the current government continues to spend taxpayers’ money appealing this point). On the other hand he warns of public unrest if the British people feel “cheated” by British judges.

Farage and angry Brexiteers should direct their anger away from our judges – who were just clarifying basic British constitutional law – towards the Conservative government, who told voters the EU referendum was enough to take them out of the EU when it knew full well it wasn’t.

Louise Rowntree – Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Chelsea and Fulham
London

Nigel Farage’s words on the Andrew Marr programme yesterday came dangerously near to incitement to riot. His subsequent decision to lead a march on the Supreme Court must be seen as an attempt to intimidate our judges.

Sadly we are now seeing a rapid and disturbing shift in the centre of gravity of British politics. Mainstream MPs who, until recently, would have fought shy of criticising normal court processes now seem to find it very easy to do so. The Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor who, again until recently, would have spoken out clearly and loudly against the kind of press headlines we have seen now seem, for whatever reason, unwilling to do so.

For liberals and democrats these are disturbing times.

Reverend Andrew McLuskey
Staines

It is about time that those who deny Christians the freedom to express views in line with Biblical teaching are told to stop discriminating. A couple has been told by local social services that they are barred from adopting foster children they have been caring for because they expressed their view that children need a mother and father.

This is further evidence that Charles Walker MP was right to suggest there is an inequality in the way Christianity is respected in this country. When will Theresa May speak out against those government departments which are clearly discriminatory and denying people their rights?

J Longstaff
East Sussex

I am former Ghurkha and I feel proud to wear a poppy amongst 60 odd commuters travelling today in a carriage to work in Central London.

We waste millions of pounds in gadgets, clothes and other wasteful materials – let us donate a pound for our heroes. Those who sacrificed their today for our tomorrow

Yam Gurung
Watford