Don’t let EU deal sink Bridlington’s fishing industry – Yorkshire Post Letters

I WENT to Bridlington for a day a few years ago and found it a thoroughly depressing experience, and left wondering what young people could aspire to in a place so down on its luck. Mind you, I do live in Bradford!

What a fascinating leader piece (The Yorkshire Post, June 27) but how frustrating to find we export most of the lobster – a premium product surely – whilst serving visitors imported Canadian lobster?

I had to read this twice. Is the UK unique in how we treat the industries we shine at with such disregard, still stuck in the belief that the spivs and speculators in the Square Mile will keep us all in clover? Our fishing waters are a vital asset and should be central in any efforts to revitalise places like Bridlington. Any deal with the EU must not trade this away.

From: Joe Eason, Leamington.

I HAVE much sympathy with Graham Rawlings (The Yorkshire Post, June 26). Ever since June 2016, we have been on an “having our cake and eating it” strategy.

How realistic the possibility of this strategic objective being achieved has never been publicly evaluated. An extension would at least allow time for this to be done, maybe by a tribunal sitting in public. We do know that the alternative route to a deal is leaving without one, but the Government has refused to publish the impact assessments of this for the public.

The great British public has not been told about the Government’s private preparations for this eventuality. We are still in the dark.

With its big majority in the Commons, the public is strapped into a blindfolded big dipper ride. Isn’t it great to be in the oldest democracy in the world?

From: Tony Galbraith, Elloughton, Brough.

GRAHAM Rawlings disputes my contention that prolonging the transition period out of the EU Single Market and Custom Union would be damaging to the UK economy. The Europhiles, as usual, have no ideas but I will put forward two and there will be many more in other industries.

We could manufacture our own medicines again. In our household, there are medications made in Hungary, Denmark and Belgium. Why is the NHS spending millions supporting employment and prosperity elsewhere?

We could also manufacture our own cars again. In 2019, we made fewer cars than before we joined the EU despite the vast expansion of our own and world markets since then.

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