EU trade tactics on Brexit is warning shot to other dissident nations – Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Gordon Lawrence, Sheffield.
This was Boris Johnson signing the UK-EU trade deal.This was Boris Johnson signing the UK-EU trade deal.
This was Boris Johnson signing the UK-EU trade deal.

JAMES Bovington, with his Utopian view of Brussels, cannot understand how so many Brexiteers – once labelled as populists– could not see the EU as a stable, time-honoured, collective institution united in cross-border bonhomie (The Yorkshire Post, February 12).

But, conversely, committed Leavers see the bureaucracy in Brussels as an arrogant, smug, cosseted, self-absorbed wasteful and ponderous gravy train that has eroded our sovereignty piecemeal.

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What is more, Brexiteers strongly believe that Remainers cannot observe beyond their nose-ends as our country was being led by this internally appointed bureaucracy into a European federal state where our voice on matters of substance would be progressively reduced to a whimper, and our unfair and exorbitant funding contributions would become even more onerous.

Brexit continues to divide political and public opinion.Brexit continues to divide political and public opinion.
Brexit continues to divide political and public opinion.

Hard-line Remainers deliberately ignore the democratic and constitutional facts since they’ve no argument on that score and are reduced, therefore, to concentrate mainly on the economics such as the drop in EU/UK trade that James Bovington cites, largely the result of what typifies the EU in its aim to teach an ex-member a lesson for leaving its hallowed embrace and fire a warning shot across the bows of any other would-be dissidents.

From: Bob Watson, Baildon.

DEBRA Stretton (The Yorkshire Post, February 11) says that the Labour party needs to show Red Wall voters the benefits of closer EU relationships, evidencing a later “Rejoin” stance in a tangible strategy.

Does she not realise that most of those Red Wall voters who opted for the Conservatives did so because they fully supported Brexit?

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It does not seem to enter 
her mind that the strategy suggested will simply alienate them further from a Labour party already struggling to make its mark.

From: Alan Carnall, Barnsley.

ONCE again our Yorkshire fishing industry is having problems with the EU accepting our shellfish.

Well, for over 40 years it was acceptable but suddenly, after December 2020, there is a problem, but we can resolve that problem if we employ EU officials to sort out the paperwork. The EU Commission only understands if you “fight fire with fire”, so tell them they cannot fish in our waters – they will soon resolve the problems.

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