Brexit: Sir Keir Starmer and Labour would have surrendered to EU – Yorkshire Post Letters

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the Government to get a trade deal with the EU (The Yorkshire Post, September 9).

Unfortunately he just seems to be making his usual unhelpful pronouncements, being fully aware that the EU is demanding substantial access to our fishing grounds, and not accepting that we can deal with our own state aid. Thank goodness he and his cronies are not in charge and kowtowing to the demands of that undemocratic organisation.

From: Michael J Robinson, Berry Brow, Huddersfield.

IN response to Bill Carmichael (The Yorkshire Post, September 11), I’ve said for years that problems like the Northern Irish border should be solved by simply setting up border posts but then ignoring them – like France.

Very few of us can recall how much the French government was fined (eventually) by the EU for continuing to refuse to allow the import of British beef long after the ‘mad cow disease’ embargo had been lifted, but I think we all know how much of that fine was actually paid by France. Less than four months and counting.

From: Robert A Binns, Sykes Bottom, Oakworth, Keighley.

FOLLOWING the Prime Minister last Wednesday restricting the number of persons that can meet in a household or open space, I have struggled to find any scientific or other reason why we are restricted to six people.

Was this the first number that came up when Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson rolled the dice?

From: Mike Lacey, Elloughton.

WHAT I would like to know is can this virus count? In other words does it distinguish between a group of six people or a group of seven or more people, and whether they are in a house or outside, then does it know when it crosses the borders into Wales or Scotland, or crosses the sea into Northern Ireland, where very often different rules apply. It must end up as confused as many of us are.

From: ME Wright, Harrogate.

IN 2014, Liz Truss MP was outraged by the fact that two thirds of our cheese was imported. She lambasted the Tory party conference with “This is a disgrace!”

Following our retrieval of sovereignty from the EU, Ms Truss has achieved some redress with ‘protected status’ for Wensleydale cheese in Japan (The Yorkshire Post, September 12).

The BBC is under the lash for alleged rampant left-wing bias. Might Auntie be able to achieve reconciliation by treating us to a few cheese-based ‘Truss and Gromit’ programmes?

From: Alan Porter, Beverley.

THE free TV licence for the over-75s is coming to an end and the BBC will benefit from additional income from this age group. It is a coindence that they are employing a vast number of additional staff as presenters, correspondents, editors, newsreaders, news reporters, weather forecasters etc (each week sees new faces).

County councils will see a change in their finances too so is it just possible that they will look at their own structures to make vast changes on “managers”?

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James Mitchinson