Brexit; why wealthy will be the only beneficiaries – Yorkshire Post Letters

I AM horrified that we are hurtling towards a No Deal Brexit at the end of this year with apparently no progress towards any agreement.

I voted to Remain as I value our relationship with Europe and the associated economic, scientific and cultural benefits which accrue from our membership.

However Leave won, although being an advisory referendum, the outcome didn’t need to be ratified.

One wonders what the result would be now as people are confronted by the probability of No Deal when they were promised an ‘Oven Ready Deal’ by Boris Johnson.

There is no doubt that he will put the blame on the EU for their intransigence, when quite obviously it is the other way round. It beggars belief that he continues to be able to pull the wool over the eyes of Brexiteers but not over the eyes of EU negotiators.

Compared to the rest of G7 countries, our economy is already performing very badly as a consequence of Covid-19 and our failure to shut down soon enough and have an effective test, track and trace system in place.

The loss of our best tariff-free export market at the end of this year can only exacerbate this disaster.

The only people rubbing their hands will be the very rich looking forward to continuing avoiding paying tax by locating their operations in offshore tax havens, and American pharmaceutical companies who can’t wait to get their hands on our NHS.

From: Ian Wilson, Selby.

IN 1957, Harold MacMillan told a Conservative rally that the people of the UK had ‘never had it so good’. It may seem as though we are more distant than ever from the post-war ‘boom’.

Yet, I will argue that, despite the tragic trail of the Covid-19, we have, in fact, never had such a great opportunity to reflect, rebuild and restore this country as a centre for industry and to build a much fairer and more socialist state. Now we have left the EU and learnt how unwise it is to have a country that depends so greatly on the service sector, we can repair the damage done over the past 50 years.

In 1957, we may have had a flourishing economy, but it flourished largely because nationalised services and industries formed the backbone of the economy and led to a robust infrastructure. If we aim towards the instigation of a more socialist government, we can have it very good indeed.

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James Mitchinson