Only Boris Johnson to blame for No Deal Brexit – Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Bob Holland, Cononley, Keighley.
Do you back Boris Johnson's stance over Brexit?Do you back Boris Johnson's stance over Brexit?
Do you back Boris Johnson's stance over Brexit?

BILL Carmichael rewrites the history of 2019 so Boris Johnson can escape the blame for our “no deal” mess (The Yorkshire Post, December 11).

He blames the Remainers who voted against Theresa May’s deal, which had been accepted by the EU. He conveniently forgets that Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and over 100 Tories repeatedly voted down her Bill.

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The third time her Bill came before Parliament, Boris was committed to becoming PM. So he and other Brexiteers voted for it, pretending their support but knowing that enough Brexit diehards from their party would ensure defeat for her Bill – and herself as party leader.

Fishing is one of the key controversies in Brexit talks.Fishing is one of the key controversies in Brexit talks.
Fishing is one of the key controversies in Brexit talks.

Labour put forward an amendment which respected the referendum, committed the UK to leave the EU but kept UK as members of the Customs Union with immense trading advantages. This would have been acceptable to the EU, but was defeated by a Tory majority of MPs.

Of course the lawyers, fund managers and journalists in government will not lose their jobs. Yorkshire folk in thousands will, and in addition to those already hit by Covid.

From: Gareth Robson, Kent House Road, Beckenham.

BILL Carmichael writes that the EU and Remainers must take the blame for no-deal. Wrong; blame the Tory party. Their first error was to allow David Cameron’s insincere referendum in the first place; he didn’t for one moment want the UK to leave. It was all just a tactic to shoot Ukip’s fox.

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The second was their failure, on seeing the closeness of the result, to build support in the country and in Parliament. The third and most catastrophic was to allow Johnson to blag his way into power – was his calamitous stint at the Foreign Office not enough proof?!

From: Alan Machin, Bessacarr.

ROB Parsons (The Yorkshire Post, December 10) reported on the claim shoppers would be hit with a £3.1bn annual tariff bill on food and drink.

This may be true in the first year, but what he could also have pointed out was that by leaving the EU it would provide us with the opportunity to purchase cheaper goods from other countries, such as those from the Commonwealth, Africa and elsewhere. At present the EU places a 76 per cent tariff on fresh lamb from New Zealand, plus many other tariffs which are designed to protect inefficient EU farmers.

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