YP Letters: Leave voters will not forgive Tory backsliding over Brexit

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, centre right, embraces British Prime Minister Theresa May, centre left, after a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on Monday.

CONTRARY to the gushing approval by Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, Leave voters will be contemptuous of Theresa May’s capitulation over the so-called Brexit bill.

The EU will gleefully exploit such weakness; and the Conservative Party is foolish not to see the parallels with their flawed negotiation back in 1972.

Mrs May says that we will leave the EU, including supposedly the Single Market and Customs Union by the end of March 2019. Yet her non-transition “transition” will lock us into EU rules for the duration.

So actually we will be in the SM, the CU, with free movement of migrants and capital, and under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice until at least 2021 and probably longer.

Meanwhile she intends to sign a new treaty with the EU to cover “diplomacy, defence and security, and development”. So we will be locked into the EU’s foreign, military and internal security policies in perpetuity. Whatever else Mrs May calls it, this is not Leave.

From: Barrie Crowther, Walton, Wakefield.

WITH the delays on Brexit being all about what we owe, where is the other side of the coin? What does the EU owe us?

As net contributors since 1973, it would be handy to know just what being a member has cost us over all these years.

Just imagine what this amount of money could have provided? New hospitals, schools, roads etc.

Totally hypothetical now, but it bears thinking about.

From: Don Wood, Howden.

THE Prime Minister’s appeasement of the EU’s fifth column, led by Philip Hammond, George Osborne and Amber Rudd, has failed miserably in its attempt to get the negotiations moving along sensible lines.

It has encouraged the EU side to demand even more concessions from the UK and it has emboldened Hammond, Osborne and Rudd to plot further sabotage to the Brexit process.

The Prime Minister now really needs to reassert her authority by sacking them and anyone in the Cabinet who supports them.

From: JA King, Thurgoland, Sheffield.

As the trade balance is massively in favour of the EU at present, surely it should be the UK demanding a ‘divorce bill’ from the EU for billions of poounds in order for them to get a trade deal with the UK?