Brexit issues over Irish border were obvious – Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Dr Martin Hemingway, Foxhill Court, Leeds.
Brexit continues to divide political and public opinion.Brexit continues to divide political and public opinion.
Brexit continues to divide political and public opinion.

I BECAME involved early in the Remain campaign as a Green Party speaker in the Yorkshire region. The first public meeting I did was in October 2015 at Thomas Rotherham College in Rotherham.

I raised the issue of the risk to the Good Friday agreement and the peace that it had brought to Ireland, and this concerned some of the students there. The Tory speaker pooh-poohed the concern – it would not be important.

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That first meeting was five years ago, the problem of the Irish border was blindingly obvious then. This was always going to be the sticking point, and the Tory Party has either just looked the other way, hoping it would just go away, or has deliberately misled the public about the significance of an issue that was obvious from the start.

Britain is due to leave the EU for good on December 31.Britain is due to leave the EU for good on December 31.
Britain is due to leave the EU for good on December 31.

This is not a last-minute issue created by the EU, it is one that would always have to have been dealt with – some overdue honesty from the Prime Minister is all that can help.

From: Mr T Wright, Flamborough.

IT is a pity, as yet, that other countries have not had the same opportunity as us to have a referendum on EU membership.

I wonder how many others would vote to leave. We have left the EU and good riddance.

From: Martin Fletcher, Flanders Court, Thorpe Hesley.

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IF your correspondent Richard Wilson loves the EU so much, then go there. By democratic vote we beat people like him. Whinging Remoaners. And what if we have a new vote and the result is the same? What will Mr Wilson say then?

From: Malcolm Stroud, Wakefield.

ONCE again the “Neville Chamberlains” – sorry, Remainers – are blowing hot air.

With regard to “international law” it’s very loosely “international” – it’s just European Union law. The rest of the world does not care what we do in our difference with Europe.

From: Peter Hyde, Driffield.

DAVID Marsh (The Yorkshire Post, September 21) is spot on when he compares Boris Johnson to Donald Trump. They both have strange styles of speaking and gestulations and neither can give a straight answer to a perfectly simple question. What a mess we are in, but one has to ask “Would it be any better under Sir Keir Starmer?” I doubt it.

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