PM must not allow any foreign trawlers to plunder our seas

Altofts.

WE are approaching a critical level in our negotiations to escape from the tyrannical clutches of the EU, and I hope that Boris Johnson will tell the EU negotiators that no foreign vessels will be allowed to fish in British waters.

For although we understand that he may be under tremendous pressure from all sides to come to an amicable agreement with the EU, he must not allow any foreign fishing boats to plunder our waters and destroy the livelihoods of our few remaining fishermen.

Better that he should walk away with no deal than capitulate to the unreasonable demands being made by the French government.

Now would be a good moment to remind the French, and their allies, that if we are unable to reach an amicable divorce if they decide to impose punitive tariffs on our exports to the EU, we will, I hope, make the EU fully aware that we will impose equal and opposite tariffs on EU goods they are hoping to export to the UK.

They are, incidentally, far greater in volume and value than the volume and value of UK goods exported to the EU.

Without the stabilising effect of the UK in Europe, the whole EU super- state will fracture and disintegrate.

From: Howard Scaife, Backstone Way, Ilkley.

SINCE the UK voted for Brexit, the 100 per cent German stateowned, loss- making rail company Deutsche Bahn AG has been competing to increase its share of UK freight traffic, including developing additional facilities in Doncaster and Immingham.

Its road freight subsidiary DB Schenker has been busy buying out UK competition whilst also developing at Immingham. Meanwhile DHL, part owned by the German post office, has been on a massive expansion project.

As the German government already owns some of the UK passenger rail operators, will the EU be able to explain how all these investments can be regarded as “fair competition”, even on an uneven playing field?

From: Joe Eason, Leamington.

READING recent letters in The Yorkshire Post, it’s clear that tribalism is alive and well.

The job of us, as the people, is not to get behind the PM on Covid- 19 unless he’s got things right, which he obviously hasn’t given the number of cases, and not to demand total fissure with the EU in the hope it will allow the country to be levelled up when domestic policies have created the inequality.

Analysis, please, not supporting “our team”.