Political mismanagement that has cost us dear

HAVING watched The 70s programme on BBC2, it is easy to understand why the Thatcher government sold off our gas, water, electricity, telephones etc to correct the severe financial problems created by the unions and Labour government of the 1970s.

The current sale of theRoyal Mail, and whatever next, is apparently a similar response to the Blair/Brown years of fiscal disaster.

However, we must resist the sacrifice of surrendering our national identity and our freedom as a price to stay in the EU.

Surely, now is the time to exit the EU before that money drain swallows up our remaining assets?

Political mismanagement has cost us dear in the last 40 years.

From: Mr J Walker, Luddenden.

RC Dales’s (Yorkshire Post, October 12) has to be the best argued view regarding Britain’s EU situation.

The political and “intellectual” elite who would have us in the EU missed including in their assessments a development which makes the British Commonwealth of Nations an important trading asset – the rise of the use of the container ship.

The language advantage and the ease and economics of shipping large quantities of goods around the world has swung the pendulum in favour of trading with the Commonwealth versus Europe. The politicians need a position rethink.