Tuesday letters: Worries for world after US election

PEOPLE are asking why out of a population of 320 million can the American public not come up with something better than Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton to stand for the American presidency?

A major problem is finance. You need to be extremely wealthy with wealthy backers to climb to the top in American politics. A concern is that of the 231 million eligible to vote, 100 million didn’t bother to. People come into politics promising to change the world, but in reality the world changes them.

We live in a democracy but it is a limited one that favours the rich against the rest of us. The late Quintin Hogg referred to it as an ‘elective dictatorship’ and the US presidential elections go some way to proving that theory.

From: Mr J C Penn, Holcroft Garth, Hedon, Hull.

LOOKING at the serious way our life is progressing, I think it is a time for serious thought. Has Big Brother’s worldwide web and information technology been a good thing? Are the world’s financial policies working or are they set on total destruction?

Politically the world is in a disastrous state.

When will the USA become a true democracy? The Presidential election was like a Hollywood horror movie.

When will religious problems in the Middle East improve? War is rampant in this area. People seek refuge in Europe.

Greed and selfishness are constant in modern life but the most intelligent beings on Earth cannot cope.

From: Peter Hyde, Driffield.

THERE is much speculation about what the election of Donald Trump will mean. While I can well understand the anxiety, I think ‘wait and see’ is the order of the day. He has to take Congress with him if he is to make any progress with his plans and they are not all fools who will follow him to the end of the earth.

From: Geoff Marsden, Buxton Avenue, Heanor.

WHEN I was a lad, trump referred to enforced or accidental emission of a foul gas from the human body. Now it is not what I have written; it is what you are thinking...

From: ME Wright, Harrogate.

The OED defines ‘Trumpery’ as: 1. ‘Deceit, fraud, imposture, trickery’. 2. ‘Something of less value than it seems’. Discuss.

End of foreign domination

From: Nick Martinek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield.

IT is almost as though the Remainers blinked and missed the EU referendum result. They’re still campaigning to keep us under the EU’s thumb, yet they lack any rational argument to overturn the vote. Instead Remain politicians have taken to aggressively using key propaganda words like “hard” Brexit, and now even “extreme” Brexit to generate feelings of fear. Yes, the Remains are still at it.

Prior to the vote, the Remain campaign itself, including its de facto leaders David Cameron and George Osborne, all explicitly pointed out that a vote to leave the EU meant leaving the EU’s single market too. There is no hiding the fact that the single market is part of the EU, consequently leaving the EU means we won’t remain a member of the EU’s single market either.

So the only avenue left for the Remainers is to agitate and obstruct Theresa May’s government to force it to re-join the single market by way of EFTA and the EEA–sometimes referred to as the “Norway option”.

That way, they can destroy the vote to leave. The Remainers’ objective of continuing EU dominance of the UK would then triumph, so satisfying their fanatical, devotion to the corrupt EU. Let us hope that Mrs May has the sense to outwit their scheming.

From: Ian Oglesby, High Catton Road, Stamford Bridge, York.

IN her recent letter, Beryl Williams describes Churchill as a warmonger but his picture is displayed in my house rather than a Nazi emblem.

Attempts on mainland Europe, to achieve political subjugation of neighbouring countries, have been resisted by, for example, Nelson, Churchill and Wellington.

Nigel Farage, on the other hand, not only had to confront the German-dominated EU on the continent but the Europhile, gravy train MPs and the establishment in his own country, in order to give us a say on our political future, so disgracefully denied for so long.

From: Thomas W Jefferson, Batty Lane, Howden, Goole.

IT seems that the Liberal Democrats will support triggering Article 50 only if they can have a referendum on the terms of the agreement eventually presented to Parliament.

But how realistic is that? The negotiations are bound to be slow and difficult and it is highly unlikely that they could be completed in time for a referendum to be organised within the two years allowed for withdrawal.

And suppose the electorate reject the proposed agreement? It is ironic that those who have been happy to see us sink ever further into the EU over the years should now wake up to the reality that they have little or no control over the terms of our leaving.

Slaughter at wind farms

From: T Brown, Stockton Lane, York.

WE deplore the shooting of southbound little songbirds as they struggle over the Alps to migrate, but this is hypocrisy.

My friend Jim, who is interested in taxidermy, never dreamt that he would have access to such an array of corpses, including those of rare insects, birds and bats, collected for him from a wind farm.

Those who turn a blind eye to the long-term effects of this slaughter should be referred to Jim.