Theresa May hasn’t a clue about ordinary people – how dare she dictate our position on Brexit

Theresa May wants MPs to back her deal – the one that they have rejected twice and that the speaker won’t admit again unless there are changes to its substance. To achieve this, she criticises MPs roundly to the people. Almost simultaneously, the people showed that they too reject her deal and would prefer to remain in the EU.

This shows, yet again, how completely out of touch she and her advisers are with the lives of most people.

Everyone can see what she is trying to do – more bullying, more threats, more disregard for the safety of MPs.

Her constant underestimation of the intelligence and perception of ordinary people is borne out of her failure to empathise with everyday lives.

This lack of understanding, dramatically highlighted by the prime minister herself, characterises this government and its civil service at the moment. It explains their complete failure to take responsibility for the consequences of austerity, knife crime, the Windrush scandal, school finances, transport policy and planning etc, while simultaneously promoting further economic decline caused by any kind of Brexit.

We need a change!

David Lowndes
Soberton, Hampshire

Pointing the finger at everyone but herself

The execrable speech from Theresa May on Wednesday evening has surely taken herself and the Conservative Party to a new low.

These tactics are pure Trumpian: blame everyone else, set sections of the community against one another, and empower anger against hard-working politicians.

Furthermore, anyone with only average intelligence must realise that this blatant attack on MPs will only strengthen their resolve – or intransigence, if you prefer – and make doubly sure they will not relent from their opposition.

If sanity does not return shortly, I truly fear the implosion of the Tories, the union and the very fabric of society.

Robert Boston
Kent

I bet Theresa May laid the blame on somebody else when she ran through that wheat field.

Sarah Pegg
Seaford, East Sussex

After participating in austerity cuts which have resulted in the premature deaths of 120,000 poor and disabled people, after forcing nearly 4 million to use food banks to survive, after building a political career relentlessly attacking immigrants and creating a “hostile environment” for them, after creating the policies which led to the Windrush scandal, after the disgraceful treatment of the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire and the unbelievably incompetent handling of Brexit, how dare Theresa May stand outside Downing Street and tell the public, “I’m on your side”?

General election now.

Sasha Simic
London N16

More votes, please

I surely can’t be the only one really looking forward to the third meaningless vote?

Eddie Dougall
Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk

There is a way out

I really don’t know what all the fuss is over Brexit. We just need to keep threatening those nasty Eurocrats with a no deal, and at the last minute they will knuckle under and we will get everything we want. I know this because David Davis told us in no uncertain terms that this is how the EU always behaves.

G Forward
Stirling

The Home Office vs Christianity

I had to reread May Bulman’s article to make sure I’d got it right. Our Home Office has actually refused asylum to a Christian convert by quoting Bible passages at the asylum seeker which it says prove Christianity is not a peaceful religion. So where does that leave Christians currently living – and born – in the UK?

The refusal letter said that the book of Revelations is “filled with imagery of revenge, destruction, death and violence”, and cited six excerpts from it. Well, yes; Revelations is a very weird book, but it’s hardly the basis for Christianity (as any fule kno).

The refusal letter continued: “These examples are inconsistent with your claim that you converted to Christianity after discovering it is a ‘peaceful’ religion, as opposed to Islam which contains violence, rage and revenge.” Does it? Since when? Does any fule kno? A bit of reading in the Home Office would clearly not go amiss.

Beryl Wall
London W4

The Asda and Sainsbury’s merger

The £1.6bn cost saving if the merger of Asda and Sainsbury’s goes ahead might sound great, but what will be the effect on the producers and the staff? How many will be made redundant? What will be the effect on the farmers?

Before the report concerning the merger is published, we need to know the implications of the wider picture. What are the rates of pay to the employees in the developing world producers who produce some of the clothing?

Bruce Adams
Maidenhead