Joe Biden is part of Remainer threat to Britain – Yorkshire Post Letters

Hannah Robinson’s recent article on Joe Biden’s victory (The Yorkshire Post, November 11) was obviously written from an anti-Brexit Remainer’s perspective and I found it biased and not factually correct.

Although a no deal Brexit would impact financially on Yorkshire and the UK in general, no mention was made about the greater impact on Europe of a no deal Brexit.

As the UK exports less to Europe than we import from them, it’s only logical that their financial impacts would be greater than ours.

The article went on to claim that “getting rid of a climate change denier from the world’s largest carbon emitter is clearly a good thing for the region of Yorkshire”, which is pointing the finger at President Trump.

He is a climate change denier but his country emits far less CO2 than China does. American emissions are 54 per cent of those of China – large but significantly less. China needs to be addressed first as the world’s leading polluter.

The 2018 figures show data compiled by the International Energy Agency, which estimates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the combustion of coal, natural gas, oil, and other fuels, including industrial waste and non-renewable municipal waste, puts China first on the list, followed by the US.

Incidentally the UK is 17th in the list. Much lower than the USA.

Can these people with “opinions” please check their facts better?

A special place for me

From: Ken Walsh, South View, Tunstall, Richmond.

IN THE final paragraph of Tom Richmond’s recent column (The Yorkshire Post, November 14), he displayed his displeasure at the fact that motorists did not halt and wait the two minutes for reflection and remembrance at the war memorial in Guiseley.

In contrast, I live close to Catterick Garrison’s central roundabout which features a stone railway engine placed upon what was the original line of the camp railway track. It has a special meaning for me because in 1939 my father Samuel Walsh departed from here with the Green Howards and was away in Burma for six years.

At 11am on Remembrance Day around 40 people gathered on the grassy slopes surrounding the roundabout and all the vehicles stopped on all four junctions where upon four ex- military personnel walked onto the central area with wreaths and one participant played The Last Post.

There was no need for the one policeman to help in any way – his vehicle was parked discreetly away under a tree.

The joyous thing I celebrate is that dad returned from the war and went into battle with my mother and between them they produced twins in December 1945 (Susan and Kenneth, schooled in Hunslet).

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