Entrepreneurs should seize Brexit opportunities to silence doom-merchants – Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Paul Morley, Ribblesdale Estate, Long Preston, Skipton.
Do you back Boris Johnson over Brexit?Do you back Boris Johnson over Brexit?
Do you back Boris Johnson over Brexit?

AMONGST the doom and gloom coming out about delays transferring goods across the Channel to us, surely there are some entrepreneurs and manufacturers in this country who can see the silver lining?

Virtually everything that comes into the country can be grown or made here, and if unemployment is supposed to rise due to the current situation, then there is a workforce ready and waiting.

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A simplistic and long-term view maybe, but better than sitting crying in the corner because you can’t get your Camembert. Also, the EU seems to be implying that when their regulations and standards change we will be bound by them.

Boris Johnson during a visit to Blyth to mark the first anniversary of his election win.Boris Johnson during a visit to Blyth to mark the first anniversary of his election win.
Boris Johnson during a visit to Blyth to mark the first anniversary of his election win.

If that’s the case, then every other country that trades with them should also be bound by them. Seeing as that is unlikely to happen, it is obviously just another scare tactic to try to keep us from prospering and to discourage other uppity EU countries from following our lead. Come on British business – see the opportunities.

From: Geoff North, Shakespeare Road, Guiseley.

FIRST I congratulate Bill Carmichael for his excellent forensic analysis (The Yorkshire Post, December 11) of the EU and the politicians who run it.

Some time ago you published a letter of mine forecasting that the bureaucratic and non accountable EU would disintegrate. In fact the UK will be the first to leave and the cracks are appearing elsewhere especially in the east of the EU.

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As for the future, the doom and gloomers see only a UK economy shrivelled in size, with fewer opportunities and playing a diminished role on the world’s stage. They overlook the fact that economies are dynamic, not static.

The old-fashioned but nevertheless pertinent “SWOT” – strengths, weaknesses opportunities, threats – applies even more at this time.

Our country possesses a multitude of business people who can see opportunities where there are threats and it is this resilience which will ensure that we bounce back from any short-term set-back.

From: Tim Bradshaw, Slaithwaite.

WE hear daily what will happen to us as a result of a no-deal Brexit. What we have not had, however, is the reciprocal consequences that the remaining current EU members could/would have to comply with when dealing with the UK. It works both ways.

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