I see that your correspondent, Don Whiteley of Irthington, (Courant Letters, February 18) is content to believe what he has been told, by the man who signed the deal on our behalf, that Brexit is done.

Things are already not quite so tidy:

- for those of us who are sadly aware of the unhappy relationship of our PM with the truth and of his bracing disregard for detail

- and for the Scottish fishermen whose livelihoods have been lost

- and for the man who had to burn the 50,000 bees he was importing

- and for the exporters faced with unaccustomed paperwork & charges

- and for the daffodil grower in Cornwall with no pickers

- and for the other old ladies like me who would by now have bought our first bunch of those cheerful flowers and been enjoying watching them open

- and for the children with one British and one “dastardly European” parent

- and their grandparents

- and for the musicians, from the top orchestras to the Tynedale jazz trumpeter, whose careers have been cut short

- and for the British pensioners living in Europe who can’t access their funds (and were not allowed a vote in the referendum).

However, Mr Whiteley’s newspapers will not report all the years ahead of negotiations to untangle the details that four years were insufficient to resolve, and will continue to assure him that every unfortunate consequence is solely the fault of those wicked people in Brussels and he will remain content.

He and his fellow Brexiters have handed total control of all of us to Mr Johnson for five full years - what could possibly go wrong?

WENDY BOND

Greenhead