Take a stand on EU and immigration

From: Terry Watson, Adel, Leeds.

David Cameron has at last got the message. The current consent for remaining in the EU is wafer thin. There is no point in trying to renegotiate Britain’s terms of membership because the dictatorship we are ruled by will not relinquish any of their powers for one country.

Now is the time for Cameron to develop a backbone and tell Brussels that we are not lifting the ban on immigration from Romania and Bulgaria which becomes legal in less than two months. He has got to put the rights of his own people first for once. He will say that under EU rules he is powerless. He must do what Sarkozy did and defy them.

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If we allow any more immigrants into Britain, we will just sink further and further into debt. The Romanians and Bulgarians are already preparing to leave their own countries, most of them aiming for Britain where they will be allowed to milk the out of control benefit system which Gordon Brown created. What will happen to their own countries’ economies?

The Brussels buffoons never thought about the consequences of unfettered immigration and neither did Tony Blair.

We are now being inundated with immigrants from Eastern Europe seeking a better life where they can earn five times the wages they are paid in their own countries.

They can also receive more in benefits if unemployed than if they were employed back home.

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The CBI are all for staying in the EU and welcome the cheap labour that mass immigration brings. They say that exit from the EU would hit trade and harm London’s financial status which is absolute rubbish.

When did their predictions ever materialise anyway? They have been getting things wrong for the past 60 years. They have always wanted Britain to join the euro. We would be in the same 
sorry state as Greece if we had fallen in with the Brussels bank robbers.

We need a referendum now Dave, not after the election.

From: Ian Oglesby, High Catton Road, Stainford Bridge, York.

AN EU referendum now would remove the threat of Ukip from the Conservative party, thus ensuring their victory at the next election. David Cameron is aware of this.

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The appalling disadvantages of our EU membership are denied by politicians with an eye on the EU gravy-train and by 
some industrialists who rejoice in the prospect of UK wage suppression. Mr Cameron is aware of this.

We are fully aware of Mr Cameron’s motives in avoiding a referendum by embarking upon a completely hopeless attempt at renegotiation, instead of reversion to a trade agreement which some of us are old enough to have voted for.

Support on stammering

From: Laura Palmer, Houston, Texas.

YOUR recent article “Yorkshire centre that changes lives by helping stammerers” was one of the most accurate I have ever read on the subject (Yorkshire Post, November 1).

It was right on target that 600,000 adults in the UK stammer.

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The statistics are that one per cent of the adult population worldwide, as well as four per cent of children, show signs of stammering at some point during development.

Some 75 per cent of these stammering kids stop stammering while the other 25 per cent are lifelong stammerers. All experts agree that early intervention through speech therapy is imperative.

Getting the children in front of a speech therapist right when the stammering starts while increase the chances that the child be among the 75 per cent of stammering kids who stop stammering.

The Stammering Support Centre in Leeds is obviously doing a great thing by offering help to young people who stammer.

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Your article also mentioned the resources of The British Stammering Association, 
which is an excellent organisation. I also what to mention that here in the 
US. there is the non-profit 
charity The Stuttering 
Foundation (www.stammeringhelp.org) whose website offers many free resources for people who stammer of all ages.

The site also has a list of famous people who stammering which includes Bruce Willis, Marilyn Monroe, James Earl Jones, 
Nicole Kidman, and others. A “Celebrity Corner” section has in-depth articles on some of these famous stammerers like Emily Blunt, Rowan Atkinson, Gareth Gates, Lewis Carroll and Bruce Willis.

It is important that young people who stammer know that so many famous people have not let stammering stand in the way of their success.

Scots sunk without us

From: Ian Tomlinson, Westbourne Gardens, Garforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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BLOOMIN’ ’eck, has David Cameron lost his marbles, sacrificing Portsmouth in favour of the Clyde?

The Scots have always wanted independence. Their mentor, Alex Salmond, must be laughing his socks off. Where would the Scots be without the ship-building industry? There must be more Glaswegians on benefits than the whole of Sassenach Hampshire.

If it weren’t for us Brits, despite RBS, Grangemouth and the SNP, we Tykes would be better off with our short arms and long pockets than those in plaid skirts and hairy sporrans.

Who needs William Wallace, Loch Ness, St Andrews, Rob Burns, Hogmanay, Rab C Nesbitt and Scotch whiskey, apart from the language barrier, anyway?

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Do come on David Cameron. Call Salmond’s bluff and reinstate Portsmouth.

No doubt crafty Labour have put in a lower quote for the frigates, but just you wait until the escalated bill comes home to roost.

I do hope with a name like Cameron, unlike Guy Fawkes, you don’t have any intention of committing treason on behalf of the Cameron clan!