Parliament has four choices over Brexit. It's time to chuck Chequers

From: Barry M Jones, Bixley Lane, Beckley

Well said Cindi Cogswell (Observer, November 16). Parliament put Brexit to a fair referendum, promising to honour the people’s vote.

That’s democracy; it must be upheld.

While Mrs May’s bizarre, remainer-driven ‘Chequers Deal’ Withdrawal Agreement indeed ‘takes us out of the EU’ under Art.50, allowing us to sign and seal certain trade deals, the post-divorce plan prevents us from enjoying those new trade deals for two years or more because Chequers commits Britain not to undercut the EU-27 through economically advantageous tariffs or standards – the basis of competitive free trade.

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This legally enforceable EU cartel and restraint on UK trade, allied to the politically unresolvable Irish border issue (thanks Mr Blair!), uniquely ties Britain in perpetuity into a bizarre EU ‘customs arrangement’, worse than Norway’s, unless the EU-27 graciously allow us to leave under their terms. Which politicians and lawyers concocted this devious Brexit-in-name-only trap?

Parliament has four clear choices; accept, re-negotiate, default no-deal leave or undo Brexit... but do we remain under Cameron’s rejected EU reforms or a 45-year festering, unsatisfactory status quo, both of which prompted the Brexit referendum?

Remoaners insist the people were too darn ignorant to have been allowed our second EEC/EU referendum in 2016, so why are they demanding a third?

Respected psephologists (as opposed to spin-doctors) strongly suggest remainers will again lose, so prepare for further referenda.

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Mature, pragmatic remainers respect the result and want Parliament to get on with it, but Corbyn’s Labour seeks only a power-grab general election... and then what?

If Mrs May and the EU refuse to re-negotiate this nonsensical ‘deal’ then Britain must walk away, free to trade with the rest of the world – which, at 57 per cent of our exports and growing, remains our largest market.

We succeeded before and can prosper again. Chuck Chequers!