Just because a majority voted for Brexit does not make it right – Yorkshire Post letters

JUST because a “majority” voted for Brexit does not mean it is a wise decision and it does not mean that the rest of us have to agree with it.

Bring on Brexit, the sooner the better – Yorkshire Post letters

At times Parliament has gone against the wishes of the majority, the abolition of hanging being a classic example.

Here’s why Theresa May deal is still best way to avert ‘cliff edge’ Brexit - Tim Hunter

As evidence, such as the drop in value of the pound and the decline in industrial output accumulates, the view of the majority does not appear to be a particularly wise one.

Why Britain should embrace values of Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher – Bernard Ingham

Nor do the machinations of the Government, in its attempts to create a cliff-edge while Parliament is in recess, look particularly democratic.

From: Geoff Cograve, Rossington.

WE are getting sick and disturbed with the situation of exiting the EU. The other morning in Tickhill, we even had a group from Rotherham, an adjoining constituency, and reputed to have no political allegiance, touting for signatures for Remain to put to Caroline Flint, our Labour MP.

The answer is simple. In 2016, the majority of those interested in voting “voted out”. The MPs of whatever party should be abiding by the vote and telling the European dictators that we are out – deal or no deal.

From: John Turley, Dronfield Woodhouse.

COUN Tim Mickleburgh (The Yorkshire Post, August 12) raises a valid point when he correctly states that the combined votes of the Conservative and Brexit Parties was slightly more than those of the Liberal Democrats in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election.

However, when it was pointed out after the EU elections in May that more people had voted for pro-Remain parties, this was ridiculed by many Brexiteers including Bill Carmichael (The Yorkshire Post, May 31), who described it as arrant nonsense to suggest that the outcome was anything other than a decisive victory for the Brexit Party, and mandate for a hard or no-deal Brexit.

From: Rajmund Brent, Wath upon Dearne.

WHAT I like about Bernard Ingham’s contributions to your paper is that I don’t like it!

He generalises, hectors and propagandises and has never once made me question what I think or lead me to a different viewpoint. In fact he does the opposite and reaffirms my beliefs. Well done Bernard, carry on the good work.