YP Letters: Brexit result was protest vote against all governments

HOW many people realise that the vote for Brexit was due to people who wanted to show their disgust with all governments?

In the 1920s and 1930s there was a Labour/Co-op group of people who wanted to provide a more radical change of policies for the poor, including rationalisation of all public transport with special rates for the poor. The Great Depression and the Second World War put an end to all these changes. However, the children and grandchildren of these mentors still hold these views and voted for Brexit.

From: Tony Morris, Lee Lane East, Horsforth, Leeds.

ROBERT Davis is to be congratulated on his comments that there are too many of us in the UK (The Yorkshire Post, February 13), in part owing to the NHS. But the numbers grow alarmingly at the input end. Immigration and birth rate can compound the problem.

One remedy is to copy the Chinese. For years it was one child per couple. In 2015 the live birth rate in the UK was 777,165. So adjusting the UK child allowance to one child per couple would see an almost immediate response after nine months. For some reason the politicians seem to ignore this demographic feature.

From: MK O’Sullivan, Victoria Street, Allerton Bywater, Castleford.

ASSUMING that Theresa May gets her Brexit legislation through at Westminster, might I suggest March 25 as a suitable date to activate the Article 50 process?

This is the date when European politicians will be celebrating and commemorating the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome.

From: DM Loxley, Hartoft, Pickering.

SINCE they appeared, en masse, in the House of Commons, the MPs of the SNP have, on occasion, displayed quite boorish behaviour. Now their leadership is calling for a second referendum on Scottish Independence.

A decision to grant the Bill must be obtained by Parliamentary Division. It must include the following clauses: the whole of the UK electorate must take part; the outcome will be binding on the Westminster Parliament and the Assembly in Holyrood; a ‘time is of essence’ clause giving a time limit must be included. Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond may be pleasantly surprised to find that the electorate are not unsympathetic to their cause.