May I reply to Stuart A Chapman's letter of December 17, If PM had been a Brexiteer.

Mr Chapman agrees with me that Mrs May is the worst Prime Minister in living memory, but then says that if she had been a Brexiteer the "whole thing would have been done and dusted".

By that, I assume he means, would have a deal acceptable to parliament.

This is clearly not the case. When the PM, after two years of negotiations, brought a deal she had agreed with the EU and set a date for a vote by MPs, she had to pull it at the last minute, knowing it had no chance of succeeding.

Had she taken a more hard-line with the EU, as I suspect is what Mr Chapman would like to see, there would have been even greater opposition.

Mr Chapman raises the point about the Leave campaign overspending and claims Remain spent far more.

If it is the case that both sides broke the rules, then surely the result should be declared null and void and re-run or the whole thing just binned altogether.

The Brexit chaos continues. In the past few days, government departments have been ordered to spend billions of pounds on planning for something most of Whitehall along with business leaders and the governor of the Bank of England, think would be madness, at the expense of domestic problems crying out for attention.

We now hear the army has been put on stand-by in case of civil unrest.

Is all this actually happening, or am I having a very bad dream?

If so, dear god, please let me wake-up soon.

Eric Hyland

Harwood