No Prime Minister is better than this Prime Minister

The Eccentric Party propose that Britain adopts a radical new plan of replacing Theresa May with nobody at all and leaving the post permanently vacant.

As plotting against the Prime Minister gathers strength, the country has largely agreed with the Tories that there are no suitable candidates and suggested Downing Street should be left fallow for the immediate future.

We say: “Not Boris. Not Rudd. Not Rees-Mogg or Davis or Leadsom or any of the rest, and you know what? Not Corbyn either.”

There’s no shame in admitting that the UK has absolutely no credible candidates for leadership and just calling it quits and muddling along for a bit. Better no deal than a bad deal, we say.

Theresa May’s already essentially a vacancy at the top. We’d just be making it formal.

We could still come out and say we want a great deal that works for everyone even without anyone actually in charge, so why not?

And if nobody’s using her room we could turn it into a gym.

Lord Toby Jug, leader, the Eccentric Party of Great Britain

I have come to suspect that David Davis has realised what a fool he has been to be such an avid Brexiteer and is now trying mess up the Brexit negotiations in the hope that when it turns out to be a catastrophe he can blame the EU and salvage some of his reputation.

The bulk of what we would owe the EU on leaving is surely readily itemised and calculable with, presumably, very little to argue about.

We need the documents that have been submitted to the EU before each round of negotiations to be published so that we can tell if our negotiator is really trying to achieve an honest and worthy agreement.

I know that the response would be that these documents cannot be made public, but I do not see why not. I would be grateful if someone would give me a reasoned explanation of why this would be impossible.

Tony Baker
Thirsk

David Higgins’s letter refers to the ministerial shortcomings of Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss and asks where they get these people from. The answer is that they come up through the usual round of Tory coffee mornings and then wheedle their way into public office by courtesy of enough electors who are gullible enough to vote for such incompetent fools.

Meanwhile, intelligent, committed and capable people are denied a part in public service, thanks to our outdated electoral system which favours the less able and those who are unfit to serve the community.

To David’s list of one, I would add Chris Grayling, who has no clue about transport; Jeremy Hunt, with no background in health; and Boris Johnson, who hasn’t got the slightest inkling about diplomacy. Can’t we do better than allow these clueless amateurs to ruin our country?

Sam Boote
Nottingham

The NHS is in a downward spiral, the pound is plummeting and our economic growth forecasts are some of the worst in the developed world, yet the Government seems to be interested only in doing all it can to staying in power. It called an unnecessary referendum to see off Ukip, and an unnecessary election to increase their mandate, and is allowing a team of so called negotiators to waste months sticking to a hard line position that was never going to be accepted. Meanwhile, as we head for the hard Brexit so beloved by the affluent and independently wealthy far right of the Tory party, who is running the country?

G Forward
Stirling

Amid all the current controversy over brain damage and the epidemic of player injuries, there can surely be no more inappropriately named individual in Rugby Union than the director of rugby at Wasps: Dai Young.

Ian McBain
Loughton

Referring to your Editorial, it is most certainly the case that preparations should be made in case our departure from the EU is without agreement. Of course business wants certainty, but that does not mean that it is incapable of adjustment to changed circumstances. That it is inevitable that leaving without an agreement will be disaster is not certain if there is adequate planning.

There is no doubt that “no deal” will result in a big hit to the UK economy but for those outside the City of London the past 10 years have been a big hit and we should not forget that it was the finance sector that was, and is, complicit in that disaster. Long-term projections about the future growth in GDP are no better than guess work. (Statisticians warn about straight line extrapolations.)

We missed the boat years ago in seeking to reform the EU now they are on a course that is integrationist and dominated by Germany. No wonder a majority voted Leave. I do hope we can reach an agreement because whatever the outcome I see the future as a struggle for ordinary working people against the free market fantasists in the Conservative Party and in the EU. Now that is the real issue.

Keith Mann
Macclesfield