Keep on trucking

I HAVE every sympathy with the Kent parish councillor who is fighting plans for a lorry park on his doorstep if there is a no-deal Brexit (Letters).

The M1 junction 23 lorry park is a nightmare for local people. Now a nearby defunct quarry is to become an incinerator area processing rubbish from all over the UK.

No one in the area wants it, but Westminster has permitted this blight on the area. Because of the

prevailing wind, Loughborough University’s sport stars of the future will ‘benefit’ most from it. HELEN NEWBOLD, Shepshed, Leics. THOUSANDS living near motorways have to put up with noise and traffic fumes, but weren’t their houses cheaper because of the location? You can’t blame Brexit for something that’s been going on for decades.

It’s a myth that a no-deal Brexit will spell disaster. When Britain takes back control over our borders, imports and exports, foreign vehicles can be levied to use our roads.

They’ll also have to pay duties on their goods, so consequently there won’t be as many of them.

Our farmers will be able to grow what they like. Supermarkets will be able to replace horrible Golden Delicious with the best apples in the world – English-grown Cox’s Orange Pippin. Give Brexit a chance to undo the damage caused by the EU and watch free Britain thrive. mAURiCE BLiGH, Sittingbourne, Kent. IT’S true people who chose to leave the EU did not vote for motorways in Kent to become lorry parks or for the need to stockpile medicines and food. They instructed the Government to extract us from the hand of the Eurocrats – but that is, apparently, beyond it. JOHN COLLiNS, Chelmsford, Essex.