YP Letters: Accept it '“ Britons don't want the EU

THE letter from ‘remoaner’ John Cole (The Yorkshire Post, February 1) is yet another example of the corpse refusing to lie still.

In past General Elections when Labour have been victorious, Mr Cole and others did not write to newspapers demanding that the 49 per cent who disliked Labour should have a 49 per cent share of subsequent policies and so on.

Get on with it, Mr Cole, the majority of Britain simply do not want the EU. We have had enough.

From: Mervyn Jackson, Belper, Derbyshire.

KAMRAN Hussain, Chair of Yorkshire and Humber Liberal Democrats Policy and Brexit spokesperson, stated in his recent letter the the party ‘demand a vote of the people on the final Brexit deal’.

I wonder if he agrees with his leader, Tim Farron, who said in an interview that this demand for a further vote is not the same as calling for a second referendum. I also wonder if they have a suitable name for this further vote. If all future Lib Dem policy-making has the same clarity of thought, they could emulate Labour’s success in future elections.

From: Ian Tomlinson, Garforth, Leeds.

IN my book our MPs are in Parliament to represent and support their constituents who voted, no ifs or buts, to exit the EU. So, why are so many not doing so?

From: Ken Holmes, Selby.

WITH regards to the House of Lords and Brexit, there are one or two people preening themselves whom you could gamble all England to a hay seed that they would be certain to win the BBC’s Mastermind competition, specialist subjects being hypocrisy and telling lies.

From: Coun Tim Mickleburgh (Lab), Grimsby.

DONALD Trump is the democratically elected President of the United States. So of course he should make a state visit to Britain as representing our former wartime ally. I’m afraid that the protesters don’t understand ‘blue collar’ America and how they feel betrayed by the liberal elite.

From: Brian Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.

EDWARD Mitchell claims that “the ordinary right-thinking people of England love President Trump” (The Yorkshire Post, February 2). I will ascribe the omission of Scots, Welsh and Irish to the Freudian slip of a Little Englander. His observation will come as a surprise to decent people of these islands who dislike mendacity, inconsistency, disrespect, boorishness, intolerance, prejudice and vanity, and are fearful of impetuosity, impatience, hubris and stupidity.

Banning diesel cars won’t work

From: Karl Sheridan, Selby Road, Holme on Spalding Moor.

THE debate on eradicating the threat to health from diesel cars is a hot cookie for any political party, however the big issue for the Government is fairness. Most of us diesel car owners bought them because we wanted value for money – the Treasury’s greed by taxing petrol at a higher rate made the economy of owning a diesel car a ‘no-brainer’.

Now it appears the thinking is that diesels are dirty, filthy things and abhorrent to any civilised society, and it is suggested that owners should be penalised by higher tax on diesel fuel; will be excluded from cities and will need to be coerced – by making ownership of a diesel car expensive – into buying hybrids or fully electric cars.

That is all very well, but like others, I bought and own what was an expensive car 13 years ago – £28.000. I am now retired and certainly cannot afford or indeed wish to pay out a similar sum for a new car – electric or otherwise.

However, the internet has also contributed to the road pollution with the advent of online shopping.

Business has to go on and banning diesels from cities will inevitably mean loss of trade within the city because diesel car owners will shop elsewhere.

Polluters should pay

From: John G Davies, Alma Terrace, East Morton, Keighley.

I WOULD like to respond to Dave Roberts, of the Alcohol Information Partnership, about the decrease in alcohol abuse.

I applaud the good work of the Alcohol Information Partnership, but having seen at first hand some of demands made on the NHS by smoking and drinking, I would like to suggest, on the environmental principle, that “the polluter pays”.

There is evidence that price does affect alcohol consumption and smoking, so an increase in tax on these products would have the dual beneficial effect of providing extra revenue to be spent on health whilst at the same time reducing the demand on the NHS.

A flawed argument?

From: Mr M.J. Thompson, Goodison Boulevard, Doncaster.

THE fight to stop parents taking their children on holiday in term time has now gone to the highest court in the land.

It has been stated that for a child to miss even half a day from school has a major detriment on the pupil’s education.

Why then after six weeks of holidays in the summer are schools closed on the first day back for teacher training? This could take place in that six weeks.

Capital concerns

From: Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire, Shipley.

WHY is it that The Yorkshire Post is always going on about Britain being too London-centric when exactly the same thing could be said of Leeds in Yorkshire?