THE Brexit process has lifted a stone to expose the creepie-crawlies of an entrenched Establishment wriggling as it attempts to subvert the will of the people.

When more than 70 per cent of the elected Members of Parliament at Westminster are pressing the case to remain in the EU against the 52 per cent of the electorate who voted them in on a mandate to leave, this is more than a total loss of credibility.

This democratic deficit is reinforced by Prime Minister May consistently failing to agree her proposed Brexit Withdrawal legislation domestically with the Cabinet and Parliament before recklessly endorsing it abroad with the European Union.

The UK has lost not only a hard-won reputation for the proper representation of its people, and the due process of government. The Prime Minister and many members of Parliament in appearing to act in isolation of the electorate who put them in office have broken their trust with the people. More than any flawed Brexit withdrawal agreement, the true Brexit crisis is a crisis of democracy.

Elizabeth Marshall,

Western Harbour Midway, Edinburgh.

ALISON Rowat ("The Mother of Parliament is unfit, but it is no time to gloat", The Herald, March 21) states that Theresa May "has the look of the martyr about her." I read books on history, particularly the world wars, Antony Beevor and Max Hastings to mention two favourites, on a regular basis and it is my opinion that Mrs May is now showing a bunker mentality. Her erratic behaviour strongly reminds me of that of Adolf Hitler in the last months of the German Reich – the blaming of Parliament, the refusal to take responsibility for errors, poor leadership, the single and narrow-minded belief that her way is the only way, the binary choice no matter the consequences. All very familiar.

History does indeed repeat itself and Mrs May will, I am sure, warrant an excoriating entry in the history books of the future.

Ian M Forrest,

Dalveen, Garvock Road, Laurencekirk.

IT has been reported that the EU has made provision for an emergency meeting of all states on March 28, one day before the deadline, in order to avoid a no-deal exit.

I am not confident. I imagine a metaphor of the United Kingdom as a very sick family member. The rest of the family have spent so much time and energy with the patient that they are not looking after their own affairs and, goodness knows, there are problems in the family.

The family, the EU 27, can see the crisis coming to a head. The patient’s vital functions are failing. There appears to be no cure. Would they give the order not to resuscitate? I think they would, and will, on March 29 in the very likely event that Theresa May’s deal falls again or, as the same flawed and failed deal does not even make it onto the order paper. All noise coming from Europe suggests that the overwhelming view is that no more can be done. A further extension would appear pointless. Europe watches Mrs May’s extraordinary address to the nation and Jeremy Corbyn’s hissy fit in finding an Independent Group member in a meeting he had been asked to join.

I apologise for the metaphor above. From my own experience it will be a painful one for folk who have had such real decisions to make. But the illness that is Brexit has so degraded the country that it is difficult to imagine language too harsh to describe the sorry state we find ourselves in. Desperate times, and more to come.

Bill Wright,

151 Broomhill Drive, Glasgow.

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THERE seems to me a simple solution to the Brexit mess.

1. Article 50 should be revoked.

2. If England still desperately wants to leave the EU it can simply ask politely to leave the United Kingdom.

This seems the least destructive option, as any other is going to smash the UK to smithereens. Does Theresa May really want to go down in history as the person who broke up the United Kingdom?

Vivian B Delf,

1 Garthland Cottages,

Stoneykirk, Stranraer.

“CLOWNS to the left of us, Jokers to the right ...". So this is what a Brexit Bourach Plus to the power of n landscape looks like.

Alastair Patrick,

3 Pentland Crescent, Paisley.

YOUR headline today, "Miller reports strong demand for homes as sales grow despite Brexit" (Herald Business, March 21) is typical of current media presentation – blame everything on Brexit.

I quote from Ivor Tiefenbrun' s contribution to your pages on February 19, 2018: "EU doom-mongers also believe we should pay the EU to continue unequal trade in physical goods, remain subject to EU governance, and yet have our financial sector deprived of passporting rights."

We should walk away from this undemocratic institution and trade under World Trade Organisation terms. We are already members of the WTO. We would save the £39 billion divorce bill, avoid a transition period and an Irish backstop, for starters.

David Miller,

80 Prestonfield, Milngavie.

IT might focus the mind if we stopped referring to “the Irish border” and more correctly used the term “the British border in Ireland”. It is ironic that almost a century after the imposition of this colonial border on the island of Ireland, its very existence has now come back to haunt Jacob Rees-Mogg and his fellow (modern day) colonialists in the Brexiter wing of the Tories.

Michael Carr (formerly of Glasgow),

Glen View, Kerrykeel, Co Donegal, Ireland.

ONE of those enigmatic and puzzling lines from the Bob Dylan song Love Minus Zero/No Limit sprang to mind when trying to make sense of the unprecedented and chaotic events in the Westminster Parliament: “She knows there’s no success like failure, and failure’s no success at all”.

Thanks, Bob...

Christine MacLeod,

68 Leighton Street, Glasgow.