New Year’s Eve should be celebrated as UK Independence Day from EU - Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Dick Lindley, Altofts, Normanton.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson secured a last-minute trade deal with the EU. Photo: Dominic Lipinksi/PA WirePrime Minister Boris Johnson secured a last-minute trade deal with the EU. Photo: Dominic Lipinksi/PA Wire
Prime Minister Boris Johnson secured a last-minute trade deal with the EU. Photo: Dominic Lipinksi/PA Wire

FINALLY we have escaped from the tyrannical rule of the European Union.

My heartfelt congratulations to Boris Johnson and his negotiators for achieving what the Remoaners all said was impossible.

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Although the deal on our fishing rights may not be perfect, it is hugely better than our previous situation when we were ruled by Brussels, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel.

The Brexit transition period came to an end on December 31. Photo: PAThe Brexit transition period came to an end on December 31. Photo: PA
The Brexit transition period came to an end on December 31. Photo: PA

I hope that New Year’s Eve will be celebrated in years to come as UK Independence Day. Well done, Boris.

The left-wing intellectuals and liberal Remainers all laughed at and scorned Boris’s attempts to organise our escape from the EU – they ain’t laughing now!

From: Peter Rickaby, Selby.

Congratulations to Boris Johnson on passing his trade deal by 571 votes to 73 – a thumping majority.

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It is a victory for common sense and we are once again a sovereign nation. Now he must turn his attention to “levelling up the North”. No more platitudes, sound bites... action, action and more action is needed.

Once achieved, Labour will become totally insignificant.

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From: Martin Graham, Huddersfield Road, Meltham, Holmfirth.

MICHAEL Mycroft (The Yorkshire Post, December 29) seems confused. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but basic geography tells us the UK is on the European continent and as such he will always be a European – whether he likes it or not. Leaving the EU does not alter geographical boundaries.

The EU is a trade arrangement, among other things, and has absolutely no bearing on one’s continental identity.

From: ME Wright, Harrogate.

MICHAEL Mycroft’s “compliment” at no longer being European doesn’t line up with history.

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Essentially, Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg et al have replaced one set of forms with another.

Whether our endlessly trumpeted “sovereignty” ends up being subsumed by distant former colonials remains to be seen.

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