Get real; Brexit has been sold on ‘pack of lies’ – Yorkshire Post Letters

WHERE has all the vilification of the EU come from? Is it just from all the ‘lies’ which fall from the lips of members of the UK government?

Brexit was sold on a pack of lies which many of our citizens have now realised. Britain ceased to be great a long time ago and most people who voted Leave will not be alive to see it great again. I am not proud of saying this.

How long do you think it will take us to build back our industries, many of which failed because of cheap imports from the Far East?

We may be an island but we are still part of the continent of Europe. Many good things have come to us from them, our closest neighbours. Get real peeps.

From: Roger Backhouse, Orchard Road, Upper Poppleton, York.

SOMETHING must be wrong. I agree with Sir Bernard Ingham (The Yorkshire Post, September 16).

I disliked Margaret Thatcher’s negotiations around the Single European Act that set up the EU.

However, she prepared thoroughly and worked for British interests. She did this with full consideration of the law and not reneging on previous agreements.

She realised Britain’s strong financial sector would prosper in a Single Market against competitors of Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. So it proved. There are now vastly more people working in British finance than in, say, fishing, which gets far more attention. Unless British negotiators are very careful, that access to the Single Market will be cast aside with the loss of much employment and tax revenue. Present Government negotiating tactics are crass beyond belief. No wonder Brexiteers like Lord Howard and Lord Lamont are horrified. We should all be.

From: Peter Hyde, Driffield.

I FAIL to understand what all the fuss is about Boris Johnson tearing up Theresa May’s Withdrawal Agreement.

Both Germany and France would have done exactly the same if it suited them.

We have to accept that there is little or no honour in politics.

Personally I wouldn’t trust a politician as far as I could throw him/her and, at 88, be assured that isn’t very far.

From: Ron Firth, Campsall.

AMIDST all the extremely serious problems faced by the Government and its people, the one item that needs to be sorted urgently is Brexit.

In fact it could and should have been sorted long ago if the MPs from all parties had followed the instructions of their constituents to get us out.

Michel Barnier and co do not need to exert themselves in blocking our attempts to leave with a very reasonable trade deal, as many in Parliament, the BBC and media are doing this job for them.

It is totally inappropriate for Ed Miliband, who completely ignored the 71 per cent of his constituents who instructed him to support Brexit, to criticise the Government for minor amendments to try and get us the trade deal we require.

Any minor dent in our reputation for law abiding is a price worth paying if the alternative is an acceptable trade deal for the UK and we will still be ranked above the rest of the EU as far as law-abiding is concerned.

From: Peter Rickaby, Selby.

IF someone at Court was found to be working against the Crown in the days of yore, they were despatched to the Tower for their head to be severed from the body.

I am not suggesting this 
should happen today, but civil servants found to be doing something similar against the Government should be immediately sacked – no handshake, no pension.

Leaks from Government departments happen daily and this is wrong.

From: Dr AR Galbraith, Chantreys Drive, Brough.

TONY Rossiter lauds the EU for its united front over Brexit (The Yorkshire Post, September 15). It’s hardly surprising. I believe the Forty Thieves were also united in their determination to carry on plundering their victims.

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