‘Remainer’ is using every trick in book
From: Nick Martinek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield.
TIM Farron’s attempts to overturn the leave vote (The Yorkshire Post, February 6) get wilder by the day.
From demanding a re-run of the referendum, to cherry picking statistics, to gross exaggeration, he employs all the tricks he can muster. Respect our leave decision? He spends most of his waking hours attempting to snatch it away from us.
Despite Mr Farron twisting export statistics by limiting the data to a few Yorkshire cities, he cannot bamboozle us into ignoring the rest of our economy. In fact, all of our exports to the EU amount to only about one tenth of UK GDP.
Indeed all the horror stories he concocts are actually just re-hashing the tired, old, cold Remain “Project Fear” that was so extreme that it became a joke and rightly failed last year.
We knew that we would be leaving the EU’s single market, not least because the Remain campaign kept telling us so, and yet we still voted to leave all of the EU. It is about time Mr Farron accepted it.
From: Nat Wendel, Kingston Chambers, Land of Green Ginger, Hull.
TIM Farron and the Liberal Democrats still don’t get it, do they? If they were true democrats, they would support the will of the people and make that decision work instead of trying to rerun the referendum.
How many times do they want us to vote until we come up with the ‘right’ result?
From: Don Burslam, Elm Road, Dewsbury Moor, Dewsbury.
THE old cliché about opening Pandora’s Box seems very opposite to the impending negotiations with Brussels and the rest of the EU. I think if we play our cards diplomatically, we can still get a decent deal and minimise the damage already done. To put it bluntly, the usual Europhobes should be told to sit down and shut up.
From: Alan Chapman, Beck Lane, Bingley.
I WRITE to applaud the outstanding letter of Gordon Lawrence (The Yorkshire Post, February 4). He states the overreaction of the Liberal politically correct elite is obnoxious and doing great damage to the country only exacerbating the divide between communities. The country requires perfect peace and harmony pulling together to continue the UK’s sustained prosperity.
From: Jack Brown, Lamb Lane, Monk Bretton, Barnsley.
MPS like Wakefield’s Mary Creagh, who voted against Article 50, justify their conceit with Edmund Burke’s argument “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays you, instead of serving you, if he sacrifice it to your opinion”.
However, Burke made that speech in 1774 when most of his constituents had no vote and most of those that had were politically illiterate. His belief has been overtaken by universal suffrage and state education.
Referendums have become necessary because political parties use whips, ambition, ignorance and conceit to undermine the representative democracy that Jeremy Corbyn has (deliberately?) missed an opportunity to rectify. If he had not imposed a whip, all his MPs would have voted to represent the views of their constituents.
Ukip’s most popular appeal is its refusal to impose whips. It is presently rewriting its constitution. If it enshrines and safeguards the principles of representative democracy, it will put an end to divisive party politics.
It will undoubtedly also offer a trustworthy alternative to Brexitbutters in the general election that may come soon, and in the local elections next year.
From: Mike Bytheway, Oakwood, Leeds.
THE theory put forward in the analysis of the Brexit result was summarised as this: Welleducated people voted Remain; Working class, minimum wage and others voted for less immigration and Brexit.
I now read (The Yorkshire Post, February 7) that “working class” areas have been housing asylum seekers in several locations, including Sheffield 800, Bradford 700, Leeds 600 and Rotherham, Barnsley and Kirklees 400 each.
The areas of “high education” including Harrogate, York, Ryedale and Scarborough have not, as of now, taken in or housed any of these people.
Am I missing something here?
From: Mr J Bore, Draycott Avenue, Hornsea.
PRIOR to the referendum on leaving the EU, I, along with I suspect many millions of voters, was not aware of the existence of Article 50 and the likelihood of years of negotiations required to leave the EU.
Perhaps naively, I assumed that leaving would be with immediate effect. After all, joining the EU was apparently an instant procedure, achieved with a simple signature!
One must ask why, in the runup to the referendum, Article 50 was not mentioned at all, at least to my knowledge, by a single spokesperson?
If it was mentioned, it certainly was not given any prominence. Did all our MPs know about Article 50 and its implications?
I am not convinced that all these negotiations prior to our leaving the EU are the proper or the only possible procedure. Could we not simply revert to the status of the UK before joining the EU?
And then, after the UK is free and clear of all ties to the EU, and only then, negotiate (from what may well be a stronger position) for any specific arrangements that may suit the interests of the UK and its citizens?
From: Ken Holmes, Cliffe Common, Selby.
I AM delighted that our great country is once again being led by a woman as, since Sir Winston Churchill, male prime ministers haven’t had a clue.
I am already liking the style of Theresa May, no pun intended, so please forgive me, but I am sure she will come up trumps.