YP Letters: Battle with Brussels bureaucrats is UK's biggest problem

Brussels bureaucrats won't make Brexit negotiations any easier, conclude readers. Do you agree?

EVER since we, as a nation, voted to leave the EU, I have felt that the big problem with the negotiations was going to be the bureaucrats in Brussels rather than the individual nations.

The announcement regarding the rights of EU citizens seems to bear this out. The package of rights and benefits to which they will be entitled seems very generous, including free NHS healthcare, pensions and various other benefits.

Try getting such generosity if as a UK citizen you were to move to most of the other 27 nations.

This offer was deemed insufficient, not good enough, by Donald Tusk and the unelected faceless ones in Brussels.

A Spanish MP speaking on the radio however thought it was excellent.

One must remember that the three million or so EU nationals in the UK came here mostly to find work, mostly penniless, certainly to find a better life.

The million or so Brits living in the EU are mostly retired folk seeking the sun and of independent means.

From: Don Burslam, Elm Road, Dewsbury Moor, Dewsbury.

CYNICISM about the failures of our politicians and government has risen to record levels. The Grenfell disaster has added anger to the existing disillusionment. The latest failure is the delay and shocking increase in the projected cost of tram-train in South Yorkshire from £15m to £75m.

We have one of the largest Parliaments in the world supported by a huge civil service and swollen local government, yet waste and incompetence abound.

What further blunders and scandals lie ahead?

Our decision to leave the EU could hardly be more ill-timed. If we cannot run our own country properly, there must be a growing fear that we will be unable to manage our exit from the EU properly and be left isolated and without influence on the fringe of the continent. If our universities are so good, why can’t they produce people to run things properly?

One thing we should do now is drop HS2 which would relieve pressure on our finances. It’s called living within our means!

From: Jon Marcus, Colville Gardens, Lightwater, Surrey.

THE result of Brexit will mean we will become an independent nation again. It is unfortunate that most people under the age of about 60 do not know what it is like to live in a proud, sovereign country. If we had not been conned into joining what evolved into the EU, then this country would be in a much better state.