Brexit elite’s arrogance is insult to families – Yorkshire Post Letters

We HEARD this week that Stanley Johnson has applied 
for French citizenship, to 
which he is entitled as his mother was born in France 
and his grandmother was French.

How very lucky for him, but even luckier for his son Boris who will also be able to apply 
for it and to maintain the right 
to live, work, travel and study freely within the EU for himself and his children, despite 
having removed that privilege from the rest of us with his hard Brexit deal.

We know that Nigel Farage’s two children hold both 
British and German 
passports.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has set up 
a branch of his business, Somerset Capital, in Ireland 
in order to have continued 
access to Europe after Brexit.

Billionaire hedge fund managers and large Tory party donors Alan Howard and 
Jeremy Isaacs both secured Cypriot residency through 
the golden passport scheme, which costs a minimum of two million euros but does not require the applicant to live in Cyprus.

The list goes on.

Somehow it feels yet again as if there is one rule for the wealthy elites and another for the rest of us.

From: Ian Richardson, Railway Street, Beverley.

ON AWAKENING on New Year’s Day, a word used by that most gifted of writers William Dalrymple on leaving the EU, dominates my thoughts – diminished.

He was educated in 
Yorkshire at Ampleforth. Fittingly, as that institution, despite current problems, is firmly grounded in the international beliefs of Catholicism, which we as a country turned our backs 
upon 500 years ago, just as we have now done to the values of European integration in modern times.

I feel constrained to 
accept two things, there 
will be some narrow advantages to leaving and setting our own rules, more significantly, 
Brexit had majority support amongst those who were concerned enough to vote in the referendum and last general election.

Beyond these caveats, however, it will likely haunt us for decades to come as the 
most short-sighted act of self-harm taken by this country 
since the Reformation, which similarly left us intellectually, and spiritually, both more isolated – and more thoroughly – diminished.

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