YP Letters: Feast of misinformation over food prices outside the EU

From: Martin Cruttwell, Scaryingham, York.
Farming and food prices have emerged as key referendum issues.Farming and food prices have emerged as key referendum issues.
Farming and food prices have emerged as key referendum issues.

CLAIMS that food prices will go up if we leave the EU are simply rubbish.

I have to hand a booklet by Douglas Jay MP, Labour anti-marketeer in the 1970s, showing how British food prices shot up from between 53 and 135 per cent depending on the food item after we joined in 1973.

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The reason for this was that our traditional cheap food sources on the world market were shut out. It is therefore logical that a return to world market food prices means a drop in food prices.

From: DM Loxley, Hartoft, Pickering.

INTERNATIONAL security agreements are already in place between all major countries and such information is exchanged between countries on the basis of “you-help-us-we-help-you” and any petty denial of this will only damage the country – such as the EU making such a denial if Britain votes for Brexit.

From: Ian Smith, Bradford.

ALTHOUGH a fearful picture of a UK out of the EU is being painted, the only thing that we would to fear if we left is retribution from the individuals who would see it as a personal failure,.

From: Peter Hyde, Driffield.

I THINK that the Conservative Party will come to regret that they elected David Cameron as leader. Now he is showing himself to be a man who puts himself first and the country last.

From: Bob Swallow, Townhead Avenue, Settle.

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NEXT month, you will be invited, entreated, coerced and even bullied into giving your vote in favour of staying in the EU.

Let me ask you this simple question, would you purchase shares in a company which has not had its accounts passed by audit for many many years?

Well, that is what you are being asked to do.

For my money, the EU might as well be run by the ‘Mafia’. Now there is a thought.

From: Jack Caley, Hull.

IT is about 33 years since I first drove a lorry through customs barriers in Europe, stopping at every border to get clearance of the goods and change currency. I saw the development of Europe from almost medieval roads to the super highways of today, probably paid for by British contributions.

I cannot understand the antics of David Cameron, George Osborne and Liz Truss in claiming it will be difficult to negotiate trade agreements.