YP Letters: What happened to Labour's own Eurosceptic voices?

Prime Minister David Cameron defends his EU reforms to factory workers.

DAVID Cameron confesses that his ulterior motive for substituting benefit reforms for immigration restrictions in his EU negotiations is to deprive needy Britons of benefits. He has either offered a hostage to fortune or sabotaged his own talks. It should be a rallying cry for Labour Eurosceptics but where are they?

Arthur Scargill, Dennis Skinner and I fought for a “No” vote in the last referendum. I know Dennis has not changed his mind because I bought his autobiography Sailing Close to the Wind a few months ago. I very much doubt that Arthur has changed his mind.

Jeremy Corbyn is trying to change Labour Party policy on nationalisation and Trident, but there is not a peep about Europe. Labour’s traditional supporters are eager to vote leave on the immigration issue alone. Corbyn can decide either to lead them or seal their conviction that Labour has ceased to represent them. He should be under pressure from Labour MPs who want to leave. Why are they silent?

From: G Ellison, Dronfield.

IT’S about time D Wood (The Yorkshire Post, February 1) and the like realised that the USA wants the UK in the EU. The EU does not control us here, the White House has more control.

From: Andrew J England, Marsh, Huddersfield.

I’VE just read the recent letter from John Watson of Leyburn in which he wrote: “Never before have we, in these islands, been sent into battle on the whim of somebody of a different nation.” So he’s forgotten about Geroge W Bush, Tony Blair and Iraq then?

From: Ian Oglesby, Stamford Bridge, York.

FOUR and a quarter million Ukip voters were determined to return democratic government to Westminster. We must thank Ukip and Nigel Farage for pointing out that sinking into obscurity in a German-controlled bureaucratic empire was not the right choice for this great nation.

From: D Wood, Howden.

AS the migration crisis in Europe worsens by the day, the EU’s open border policy can be likened to a ship without bulkheads where one hole would be enough to sink it. The EU already has one large hole, the euro, which was slowly sinking it before the migration crisis hit. We must ignore David Cameron’s claims to have fixed the leak, and vote to save our country by leaving the EU.