YP Letters: Well done for spiking PM's insincere '˜love letter' to Yorkshire

IN recent days we have seen a surge in interest in Yorkshire from the national media. That is something that we at Yorkshire First always welcome – anything that draws attention to our great region, and the challenges we face, is to be applauded.

In this case, it is clear to us that The Yorkshire Post deserves this applause for refusing to run David Cameron’s “love letter” (The Yorkshire Post, March 12), professing his adoration of “Yorkshire and Humber”. Putting aside the peculiar use of “and Humber” in Mr Cameron’s article, an expression used pretty much solely by London-based civil servants, don’t Mr Cameron’s words ring a little hollow when contrasted with his abject failure to act on the devastating floods that hit Yorkshire in December?

It seems strange that his love didn’t extend to blocking the devastating cuts to Leeds’s proposed flood defence scheme in the last Parliament.

I believe if Mr Cameron really loves Yorkshire, now is his chance to show it. Not many people realise that Yorkshire actually has a bigger population than Scotland, and an economy twice the size of Wales. We are certainly big enough to make more of our own decisions, rather than rely on the goodwill of whoever happens to be in Downing Street.

Sometimes in life, when you really love someone or something you need to give them a bit of space to make their own decisions and fix their own problems. If David Cameron really loves us, he should back his words with actions and devolve real powers to Yorkshire.

From: Michael J Robinson, Berry Brow, Huddersfield.

WELL done for so splendidly taking the decision to tell David Cameron that this newspaper would not carry the letter he has circulated to regional publications, as your response to the absence of any reply from him to the open letter about the lack of any adequate action on this region’s flood problems.

Will voting for a Brexit have the additional benefit of a Cameron resignation?

From: ME Wright, Harrogate.

TOM Richmond mentions David Cameron’s cloying “love” of wherever he happens to be.

In proclaiming “I love Yorkshire and the Humber”, do the PM and his cheesy PR team realise that the Humber is a river, not a county?

Perhaps we could make that clear by inviting them to drop in some time.