I’ve received a number of emails from Britons who disagree with my rejection last week of the “traitor” label for British Prime Minister Theresa May. These emails offer insight into what motivates those who oppose May’s Brexit deal and her ongoing negotiations to get Brexit effected. The emailers want Brexit carried out without any associated framework deal.

First up is Jeff Wyatt, the gentleman who provoked my original article by calling May a traitor while live on Sky News. Wyatt, a member of the U.K. Independence Party, suggested that May’s mandate to effect Brexit has evaporated with her failure to effect Brexit on time. As he put it to me, “Our intransigent stubborn and deaf Prime Minister has had not one, not two but three huge defeats in the Commons and still she won’t do the honorable thing and simply leave the EU as our law permits nay instructs and go join the rest of the world as a free nation uncoupled by the failing economic and political project that is the EU.”