Brexit Britain is ready to leverage its strengths in the modern era - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: Thomas W Jefferson, Batty Lane, Howden, Goole.
The Comment column by Chris Hockney (The Yorkshire Post, January 7) epitomises the innate spirit of Brexit Britain; creative thinking and a readiness to leverage our strengths in the modern era. Let’s hear more from him, please.
Meanwhile, your EU Rejoiner correspondents are stuck in their negative mind-set, making much of post-Brexit trade frictions as justification for reaching for the comfort-blanket of the EU’s embrace.
As Singapore has found, the costs of such frictions can be slashed by greater use of digitisation and artificial intelligence. Sacrificing our democratic autonomy to the EU to solve a problem that will take care of itself would be utter folly.
The Starmer-reset is expected to yield a paltry £9bn by 2040, but will cost us far more by preventing many of the developments Chis Hockney alludes to. We need to embrace the future, not slip back into the bad old ways perpetuated by the failing EU.
Jayne Dowle (TYP, January 8) fails to understand that the EU’s ineptitude has exacerbated geopolitical problems. Had they punched their economic weight, they could have afforded the trillion euros they short-funded NATO and the extra kit could have repulsed Putin’s adventurism.
Trump could then have concentrated on the Chinese threat, confident that Europe could take care of its own backyard.