WE stand at yet another seminal moment in the Brexit saga.

Theresa May's overtures to the Leader of the Opposition to work with her to secure a deal acceptable to Parliament and to their respective parties, appear at the time of writing, to have failed.

As Tom Gordon correctly notes in his article about our Prime Minister's ongoing shortcomings in trying to conclude a final Brexit deal, ("Floundering May will have to turn to the people now", The Herald, April 6) from all accounts it seems that Mrs May has no intention of compromising her deal or shifting on her red lines.

The Prime Minister's public offer to Mr Corbyn to share her burden and, no doubt, blame for her plan to exit the EU, looks fraudulent and solely designed to give the EU an inaccurate impression that cross- party negotiations are now part of her Brexit strategy.

Mr Gordon believes that Mrs May is not acting in good faith and that she is only paying lip service to discussions with Labour representatives to keep her deal on life support.

It is difficult to disagree with his conclusions as this most intransigent, self-willed and irresponsible of Prime Ministers continues to follow her blinkered path towards a doomsday No Deal scenario, heedless to the dire consequences this will have to ordinary people's lives, now and in future generations.

The EU is increasingly frustrated and its collective patience hangs by a thread. Mrs May and her Government have failed the people. Our representatives in Parliament are utterly divided and have failed the people. The blank canvas that was Brexit in 2016 has visited economic, societal and political pestilence on us that will take some time to restore and the only way forward must now be pursued.

We must go back to the people for a second referendum. We are left with no choice.

Owen Kelly,

8 Dunvegan Drive, Stirling.

''THE only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'' So said President Roosevelt in his first Inaugural Address. And, despite the maelstrom of apocalyptic tosh spewed out by the Remainers, the BBC and the media in general – seldom, if ever supported by reason, data or experience – FDR's advice is all we need for the next few days … and with one leap we are free!

What I find most disturbing about the whole Brexit affair is how successful the Remainers, the BBC and the media have been in ensuring that there is little or no mention of the extensive preparatory labour of the hundreds of civil servants who have been working diligently for more than two years to ensure we would be ready for a No-Deal EU exit. No mention of the dedicated preparatory efforts of Steve Baker, Chris Heaton-Harris, and their colleagues at the Brexit department. No mention of the very extensive work on the other side of Channel by the French European Affairs minister, Nathalie Loiseau, to keep trade routes open. Not a word about mechanisms now in place to ensure supplies of vital medicines. Is Britain now to believe Thersa May and always keep a hold of Nurse for fear of finding something worse?

Doug Clark,

6 Muir Wood Grove, Currie, Midlothian.

AS one who voted Leave and not changed my mind, I object to the claims that we are more or less the Epsilons of society and didn’t know for what we were voting. So, I devised a simple test for the Remainers with three questions.

1. Who is your MEP?

2. Do you know that the EU Parliament moves lock stock and barrel to Strasbourg every month and how much it costs?

3. Do you know how much Jean-Claude Junker earns annually?

Almost all Remainers to whom I have posed these questions don’t have a clue.

Can I suggest the Remainer “pots” should stop calling the Lever “kettles” black and look to their own lack of knowledge.

Angus Macmillan,

Meikle Boturich, near Balloch, Dunbartonshire.

FIDELMA Cook seems to have allowed her all-too-common experience of male chauvinism to cloud her usually clear judgment ("Nothing quite so fulfilling as a rip-roaring 'Up yours!'", Herald Magazine, April 6). Her almost glowing comments on the Prime Minister's performance in Parliament ignore the truths about the Brexit process that are becoming all too clear.

Theresa May was the architect of the vile “hostile environment” policy towards immigration that lead inexorably to legitimising the bullying headlined on your front page ("Schools crackdown on Brexit bullying of East Europe pupils", The Herald, April 6) . She and the cabal of multimillionaires pressing to leave the EU for their own selfish benefit are completely unconcerned about those who will suffer from a no-deal outcome. The sufferers will include those employed by small companies that go out of business as a result. The same applies to those like myself, dependent on essential cancer medications manufactured in Europe, which are likely to become difficult to obtain or prohibitively expensive. The loss of Eastern European nurses is already exacerbating the problems if the NHS. Results like this seem hardly consonant with Mrs May's much-vaunted Christian beliefs.

I'm sorry, Ms Cook, but neither her family history, nor any amount of male chauvinism can justify Mrs May's actions. She is a stupid, intransigent person who should not be in any position where she can so affect the lives of others.

Dr RM Morris,

Veslehaug, Polesburn, Methlick, Ellon.

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IT is appalling, but the xenophobic bullying of East European children is another entirely predictable consequence of David Cameron’s 2016 folly. I am ashamed to say that the "Nasty Party" has indeed turned the UK into the "Nasty Country".

Neil Sinclair,

51 Ballater Drive, Paisley.

IN the June 2016 EU membership referendum 37 per cent of the of the electorate voted to leave and 63 per cent didn't.

So why are we in such a guddle over this issue now?

John Jamieson,

60 Craigie Road, Ayr.

AFTER reading Kevin McKenna's column on Saturday (“Brexit changes nothing – the Tory party is still about greed”, The Herald, April 6) can we safely take it that he does not vote Conservative? Or does he protest too much?

Willie Towers,

Victoria Road, Alford.

OXYMORON: Figure of speech with conjunction of contradictory expressions, ie intrinsic contradiction (The Concise Oxford Dictionary). An example is the phrase "We seek independence in Europe", oft repeated by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP. "Aha!", the voices say, "that dictionary is domiciled in England and is clearly unreliable.”

William Durward,

20 South Erskine Park, Bearsden.