YP Letters: Happiness of an avid Brexiteer

I am an avid Brexiteer and pity the poor mourners. Now I can welcome enjoying over-bendy bananas, un-straight cucumbers and hopefully can tap into the wine lake and butter and cheese mountains, unless like Gouda and the EU bureaucracy it has holes in it.

I can look forward to Britain retaining its identity as Christian in outlook whilst welcoming asylum seekers from anywhere in the world but only allowing those economic migrants into the country who will fill our needs, hopefully much fewer than 300,000 per year.

I am looking forward to deporting foreign rapists, murderers and other criminals and hopefully being able to stop terrorists at our borders.

I look forward to again dealing with other members of the Commonwealth in trade along with America and China and anywhere else in the world and getting our fishing rights back.

I am pleased the pound has lost its value since it will give our exporters the edge and I am happy to pay a little extra for my euros – I only go on holiday twice a year and that will be no great burden.

The scaremongers said the FTSE 100 would suffer but it seems to have climbed from where I’m looking.

I am pleased that we will once again have our own laws set by our own Parliament and one which will allow us to get rid of those EU rules and regulations which stifle growth.

At long last we’re putting the Great back into a free and prosperous Great Britain.

From: Brian H Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

It’s not often I disagree with Andrew Vine but it was unfair and irrational to expect David Cameron to carry on as Prime Minister following the referendum result (The Yorkshire Post, July 12).

If he had dug his heels in he would have been accused of the same sort of obduracy as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. If anything was selfish it was the bizarre decision of the three main protagonists for Brexit to throw in the towel, thus abdicating all responsibility for what they had brought about. I share your Editorial’s hope that history will be kinder to the departing Prime Minister (The Yorkshire Post, July 13).

Andy Murray’s no-nonsense response to the idiotic suggestion that it might be up to him to cheer the nation up would have been even more apt before the referendum. “Is it that bad?” he asked, glancing in the direction of the wider audience. Indeed it hadn’t been that bad: the coalition had sown the seeds of economic recovery which came to fruition with the subsequent Conservative government.

It was disgraceful that a section of the Wimbledon Centre Court crowd should jeer at David Cameron. It took Murray’s presence of mind in his hour of triumph to ease an awkward moment. Just as some of us were about to propose him for Prime Minister, he said he didn’t fancy the job.

From: Roy Ormond, Ilkley.

‘Tho cowards flinch and traitors sneer we will keep the red flag flying here.’

lt seems there are plenty of these in the parliamentary Labour Party.

At the time of deep crisis in Europe, in Britain, and in the Tory party, we find those Labour MPs aiding and abetting the Conservative government.

At a time when unity is needed we find the actions of Angela Eagle and those who support her challenging the democratically elected leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, betraying the British working people.

This is the same Angela Eagle who supported Blair’s attack on Iraq and for extended action against Isis in Syria.

She does not even have the support of her constituency party.

Now Westminster is voting on Trident. Perhaps the billions spent on war weapons would be better spent on health, education, community services and libraries?

From: Allen Jenkinson, Lipscomb Street, Milndbridge.

I’m not big on conspiracy theories but you could try this for size. Since the referendum there has been increased media interest in incidents of hate crimes against immigrants in this country whereas a blanket has been thrown over the assaults on the borders of Europe.

Could this be the anti-Brexit Brigade using people’s short memories, when it comes to politics, to push for a second referendum in the hope of getting the result reversed?

Ban drivers on mobiles

From: Elisabeth Baker, Leeds.

Yet another pedestrian has been knocked down and badly injured by a car driver who was writing a text message whilst driving.

Has the time not come for all drivers convicted of using mobile phones, whether or not an accident is caused, to be disqualified from driving immediately?

No amount of penalty points is stopping them.

The same should apply to those smoking whilst driving. Momentary inattention caused by ash dropping into a lap can have disastrous consequences.