YP Letters: Leaving EU is no leap in the dark but a step out of abyss

From: Paul Morley, Ribblesdale Estate, Long Preston, Skipton.
Boris Johnson speaks in the House of Commons to oppose the Prime Minister's EU reform deal.Boris Johnson speaks in the House of Commons to oppose the Prime Minister's EU reform deal.
Boris Johnson speaks in the House of Commons to oppose the Prime Minister's EU reform deal.

I FAIL to see why David Cameron and the other “In” politicians can class leaving the EU as a “leap in the dark”, unless it is just scare tactics.

Going back to a situation which you were in before and was far better than the situation you are in now is hardly a leap in the dark. When we went into the Common Market in the 1970s (I now apologise, as in the ignorance of youth I voted for it), we took the leap in the dark and the state we are in today shows the depth and darkness of that leap. It’s time to climb out of that thankless dark abyss and return Britain to the sovereign, self-governing country we once had.

From: Nick Martinkek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield.

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CAN the de facto new leader of Remain, David Cameron, with Jeremy Corbyn supinely following in his wake, guarantee no more extensions of EU power over us? I don’t think so, given the precedent of failure of all our previous attempts to reform the EU. Yet if they will not make that guarantee, or cannot, then the Remain prospectus of continuity, trading on the fear of the unknown, is plainly false.

From: Dave Croucher, Pinfold Gardens, Doncaster.

WE are already member of the UN and Nato, our closest ally has always been the USA and there is no way in this world that any Western country would with-hold any information on such things as imminent terrorist attacks. Just who does the PM think is going to invade the UK? The Romans? The Vikings?

From: David Tankard, Birkdale Avenue, Knaresborough.

I’D heard that the European directive on farm payments ran to 20 pages. From this the French bureaucrats produced a four page form. Westminster bureaucrats managed to make it run to 200 pages. Does this represent the future for England if we were to leave the EU, with an ever expanding Civil Service producing ream after ream of paper?

I say England as it seems likely that the UK will split, but maybe we could get Yorkshire independence as well as a result!

From: David Pickering, Stonegravels, Chesterfield.

MR Cameron has brought back a very flimsy deal. He speaks about being better together, but where was Europe when the chips were down and our troops were in Iraq and Afghanistan?