A FAIR Brexit People's Vote would have to offer three choices: stay in the EU, the May deal and leave, with no deal.
Staying in would be our biggest humiliation since Suez, made worse because it wasn't just the Cabinet to blame, but all who voted in 2016.
Mrs May's deal is the only coherent plan, tested in the heat of battle with EU negotiators, on the table.
It is also much nearer to the Common Market that 67 per cent of us signed up for in the 1975 referendum.
No one has a clue what the settled will of Labour or the SNP is.
Those who complain we will still be subject to all sorts of trade rules had better get used to it because every country and economic bloc that we are now free to have trade agreements with has environmental, safety, packaging and technical standards that our exporters will need to comply with, many of them designed to thwart competition for their domestic producers.
And those demanding the same deal as Northern Ireland should buy an atlas and see for themselves that we don't have a land border with the EU.
Allan Sutherland,
1 Willow Row, Stonehaven.
WITH the Brexit deal on offer apparently dead in the water, it is time to ask the EU for an extension to Article 50 so that we can have the referendum to end all referendums.
We need a multiple choice referendum with four options where the voters number their preferences 1-4.
The number one preference with the least number of votes would have its 2, 3 and 4 votes redistributed amongst the other three remaining No 1s.
The one with the least No 1 preferences would be eliminated with its other votes being redistributed between the two remaining candidates.
That way we would have an outright and resounding winner which no one could ague about
The four options on the ballot paper would be:
1. Remain as we have been.
2. Accept the deal made by the Government.
3. Ask the Government to renegotiate
4. Leave with no deal.
It would be easy enough to set up such a ballot paper and we could be sure of a definitive result by using the elimination process already mentioned.
This would be better than the chaos and recrimination prevailing today. There would be a positive outcome which would then prevent any carping and would enable positive progress.
Denis Bruce,
5 Rannoch Gardens, Bishopbriggs.
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