LYNDA Willock (Bridport News, November 16) suggests that a majority of the British people think that ‘No deal would be better than a bad deal’ . 

We might all agree with that sentiment but the positive alternative at that point is to stay in the EU. 

At the time of the referendum people voted in good faith but none of us fully understood the full implications of the decision. Reality is now emerging .

Let us look at just the past week. 

Even Brexiteers like Johnson are accepting we will have to pay at least £40 billion to leave the EU. 

Experts confirm what we know from rising prices that the fall in living standards will not improve in the next decade. 

Renewed warnings have been made about the threat to peace in Ireland. 

We have seen the first stages of our diminished world status. 

The European Medicines Agency will move from London to Amsterdam and the European Banking Agency from London to Paris. Over 1000 jobs go and this is just the start. On the global stage we learned Britain will not have a judge at the UN’s most powerful court for the first time in its 71-year history. Trade with the rest of the world ? 

The Australians have criticised our post Brexit trade plans and the special relationship with US is our own fantasy. 

Even the Leave vote itself is under question as the legality of campaign funding falls under investigation by The Electoral Commission. Just one week! – We all want what is best for the future of our country. 

Whichever way they chose people voted in 2016 for the best of motives. 

In 2017 the reality is much more complex and it is essential that Parliament is allowed to take the final decision based on the actual outcome of negotiations.

Barry Bates
Lodge Lane,
West Allington