No fear of EU threats or of a no-deal exit
From: Nick Yates, Laverock Lane, Brighouse.
THE EU is a failed experiment. Its administration has already bankrupted Greece and Italy is on the brink of financial disaster.
The EU is not democratic nor is it benevolent to its subjects, and its management is similar to that of the old Soviet Union.
Over the last two years the EU has been intransigent; obstructing rather than negotiating. The main problem now is uncertainty and a second referendum would prolong that uncertainty and the result resolve nothing.
If we don’t reach agreement we obviously haven’t got a deal. So no deal would be a fact, not a decision to be made.
Whether we agree a deal or not by March 29, most of the work is still to be done. The key differences are that with no deal we regain control of £39bn and there is no backstop.
No deal is not to be feared and plans have been made for that eventuality. British people do not like being threatened and they were not intimidated by unfounded alarming predictions made in David Cameron’s proRemain glossy leaflet delivered to every household in the UK prior to the 2016 referendum. And we will not be intimidated now.
From: Canon Michael Storey, Healey Wood Road, Brighouse.
I LISTENED to The World This Weekend at lunchtime. It included many interviews in Doncaster. Seemingly, constant confusion reigns supreme in Doncaster as in the rest of the UK.
Some people said that “we”, the UK, had voted “to leave”, others wanted a “People’s Vote”. It appeared that the good people interviewed hadn’t realised that only 37 per cent had voted “to leave”. No one suggested what the options would be for a “People’s Vote”. The chaos resulting from David Cameron’s foolish plan seems to have no end.
From: David Schofield, Highfield Drive, Garforth.
AFTER reading the letter from your correspondent James Bovington (The Yorkshire Post, February 8) regarding Brexit and a second referendum, it seems to me that all he is doing is repeating the rhetoric we hear so often from those who seek to ignore and overturn the will of the people. We had a referendum, and the majority voted to leave the EU. That is called democracy, Mr Bovington. In his letter he goes on to bring out the old chestnut of giving a vote to 16 and 17-year-olds if we were to have his longed for second “People’s Vote”.
This the group who are usually full of ideology with virtually no experience of life. How many have the burden of managing a budget, the responsibility of having a mortgage or bringing up children? Many seem to be preoccupied with mental health issues, self harming, gender identity, gang culture and addiction to social media? The list is endless.
From: Phyllis Capstick, Hellifield.
RATHER than raising the voting age to 20 (Barrie Crowther, The Yorkshire Post, February 9), I think that the best idea of all would be to raise it to 25. By that time, school children and students would have seen a little bit of real life and what it takes to make a living.