YP Letters: Making the case to leave corrupt and dysfunctional EU

THE fact that Remain, even backed by the establishment, was beaten by us uneducated, knuckle-dragging, flat-Earth, thick Leavers (all regular Remain ad hominem abuse) shows how bad, and unbelievable, the Remain position is.

Even “continuity” Remain appears unable to make a coherent case for us to continue to be ruled by the corrupt and dysfunctional EU oligarchy resident in Brussels.

That is not surprising since the EU’s main policies are all failures: Open borders for criminals and terrorists; dodgy banks (51 out of 111 Eurozone (EZ) banks need more capital); EZ sovereign debtors kept afloat because only the Euro central bank is willing to buy their dodgy debt and deliberate mass unemployment in the south of the EZ.

The EU is an undemocratic mess, and its politicians seem to hate Europeans. Certainly the EU’s attitude to the UK is one of spite and hostility.

Yet Remain and the Lib-Lab-Con parties, our civil service and big business are all determined to keep us tied to the EU monstrosity in whatever way they can.

From: Thomas W Jefferson, Batty Lane, Howden.

David Craggs (The Yorkshire Post, January 15) asks for one example of an EU law that is detrimental to our way of life. How about the law that permits the export of live animals for slaughter, which Michael Gove our Environment Secretary says we would ban if we had the power? Then there’s the whole raft of laws that impose regulations on the 85 per cent of our economy that goes nowhere near the EU. With those regulations estimated to cost four per cent of our Gross Domestic Product, that equates to some £60bn a year on which the Treasury would otherwise collect tax revenues of some £20bn. Bingo! That equals rather more than £350m per week which could be spent on the NHS. So the Leave campaign weren’t lying after all. I plead guilty to “rounding” the figures, but the basic thrust of the argument is irrefutable.

From: Jarvis Browning, Fadmoor, York.

I never did want the Channel Tunnel to be built. Now we are paying for it, why?

Are the Tunnel and Eurostar owned by French companies? If so, they should pay for it. Or is the best solution to blow up the tunnel (which some may think is naive) but would make our borders safer?