THE current obsession with a TV head-to-head between May and Corbyn leaves me puzzled ("I'm a Labour leader ... Get Me Out of TV debate during jungle show", The Herald, November 30). Who in their right mind would want a further dose of the pitiful, spiteful and unenlightening experience that has passed for the Brexit debate between politicians thus far?

This TV live debate is driven by a media who are obsessed with further stoking the obvious hostility between the protagonists, they want to see them in the arena hacking each other to death using the disgusting and insulting behaviour we have been getting used to recently, a behaviour which has become the current political modus operandi and has demeaned our political discourse around this issue. Furthermore, it is more than tolerated, it is encouraged by the same media who have been dining out on the Brexit fiasco since it began.

No amount of appealing to public interest, or democratic debate could persuade me that anything good will come from this, only an opportunity for two uninspiring, mediocre politicians to savage each other like C-list gladiators in the Colosseum in the hope that one may slip up and be severely wounded by the other. Legitimate questions, if not wholly ignored, will not be answered, dissembling and doublespeak will be the order of the day. We will learn nothing.

And on the sidelines, in the media room the assembled press and media will have a field day totting up the score – who did best, won – who cares? The media has set up this circus and the political clowns are all too willing to perform – the media, with their own opinions will have an opportunity to adopt their preferred position, baying spectators on the terraces.

There is nothing dignified about this possible media spectacle It’s a truly American-style three-ring circus, a macabre entertainment show, all heat and no light but good for the TV ratings. God save us from this potential embarrassment.

I, with many other people I suspect, have been almost worn out by this whole Brexit fiasco. I find the buzz phrases which have dominated the narrative like "Brexit means Brexit", "I am totally focussed" or "let’s just get on with it" just patronising. They mean nothing, The EU has done myself and my family no harm at all, but I now know that leaving the EU – in any fashion – will harm my grandchildren, and I cannot bring myself to allow that. So I am now committed to staying in. We have made an awful mistake from which we have inflicted on ourselves immense self harm. The EU would welcome us back.

The media would not like it perhaps, they might be struggle to find something equally "exciting" to fill the airways and column inches of the newspaper but I’m sure they would manage.

Frankly, I wish extended versions of I'm A Celebrity or Strictly would be scheduled to prevent this stupid event ever taking place. At least they are entertaining.

Ian McLaren

27 Buchanan Drive, Lenzie.

I HAD to laugh at Peter A Russell's suggestion (Letters, November 30) that Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn could be invited to take part in I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue; perhaps they could also do a turn on Deal Or No Deal and Pointless. However, as for Mr Russell's suggestion of including Nicola Sturgeon, I would remind him that Ms Sturgeon has consistently hit the Bullseye by arguing for staying in the single market and the customs union; she's clued up, and In It To Win It.

Ruth Marr,

99 Grampian Road, Stirling.

ALTHOUGH I voted to remain I would not, at the moment, want a People's Vote. How can we vote on half a deal?

Having spent the the bulk of my working career negotiating in the food, clothing and financial sectors I am well versed with the art of negotiation. The one thing you don't do is to concede large items such as £39 billion while the most important part on the future trade relationship has still to be decided.

Our economic future will depend on this part of any final agreement. Business is desperate to know the terms of our future trade relationship with the EU. Only politicians and civil servants could be satisfied with the pathetic terms agreed so far by this Tory Government. Although I strongly suspect the public would reject the present offering how can we judge half a deal? We should, as a population, see the whole deal before being asked for final opinion. Only then can we really know if we should leave or remain.

Dave Biggart,

Southcroft, Knockbuckle Road, Kilmacolm.

THE whole Brexit campaign was based on a referendum called by a man, David Cameron, who could not conceive that it might turn out the way it did. When he resigned he was replaced by an incompetent woman, Theresa May, who almost lost an unnecessary election and had no desire to get out of the EU. She embarked on a campaign to please both sides of the debate. An impossible task. She and her supporters think they know better than anyone else and believe their time in charge has given them a greater understanding of what is good for the people. Unfortunately, she has now put our country in a chaotic situation with her subservient attitude to Brussels so that the very future of our country in in doubt.

As trade is the most important factor in our dealings with the EU it should have been top of the agenda, not to be discussed in the transition period as is the case now. I doubt if bringing Mrs May down at this late stage would solve the problem considering the position she has put the country in so it may be wiser to accept her deal and trust future leaders will stand up to the EU and release us from its grip.

William W Scott,

23 St Baldred's Road, North Berwick.

WE may question her judgment. But as mid-Brexit she dashes off to South America for the G20 no-one can question Theresa May’s honesty, integrity, resilience and sheer pluck. In comparison to her rivals she is light years ahead in every department.

Alexander McKay,

8/7 New Cut Rigg, Edinburgh. THE Prime Minister has declared that after Brexit: “We shall leave as a whole United Kingdom.” In view of recent economic forecasts, I wonder if she might better have said “We shall leave the United Kingdom in a hole”?

Kenneth Fraser,

24 Winram Place, St Andrews.