With all due respect to Polly Toynbee, why do we assume that we would need another referendum to return to Europe (Shall we have another EU referendum? Maybe – but not yet, 19 October)? The last one didn’t work out too well. Asking the electorate to vote a simple yes or no on such a complex and multifaceted deal was never going to be the right approach; nor will it be to go back in.
Call it what you will – Brejoin, Bre-entry, Brehabilitation – it shouldn’t be an all-or-nothing deal. The one thing that Brexit has given us is the opportunity to cherrypick the elements of a relationship that are of mutual benefit to both parties. How about approaching it on a piecemeal basis, processing it through normal parliamentary procedure? No buses required.
Gary Jones
Wimbledon, London
• Polly Toynbee says support for rejoining the EU “grows by the year, partly as older people drop off their perches”. I am still on my perch, but I want us to to rejoin the EU before I fall from it. Why a referendum? Let us just have a detailed manifesto from a trusted prime minister.
Michelle Ellison
Stourbridge, West Midlands
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