YP Letters: Better prepare for a Ukip government if Brexit is blocked

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YOUR correspondent John Cole (The Yorkshire Post, February 2) is becoming very tiresome with his endless misplaced comments on the majority decision to quit his beloved EU.

He detests Ukip, and along with other media commentators and journalists, has started to  ask if Ukip is dead in the water and facing oblivion following recent developments in Parliament.

If Brexit is cancelled by any means or delayed for a decade by Parliamentary skulduggery, the only answer for the British people will be to elect a majority Ukip government.

Beware unintended consequences?

From: Don Wood, Howden.

GERALD Hodgson (The Yorkshire Post, February 3) accuses me of vituperation in my letter, but I used neither strong nor abusive language while pointing out one or two facts the Lib Dems wouldn’t like.

While many Lib Dems have rightly accepted the result of the referendum, and some even voted to leave, the leadership have clearly not done so, and are trying everything that they canto reverse or ignore it completely. Tim Farron has actually stated that a Lib Dem government would take us back into the EU.

Thank God we will never have a Lib Dem government.

Finally to Mr Hodgson’s misguided idea that because they won the Richmond Park by-election the Lib Dems are making a comeback. Would he like to have a little wager with me that this seat will return to the Conservatives at the next election? The only reason they won was because the Conservatives did not field a candidate.

From: Nigel Bywater, Oak Grove, Morley.

THE news last week was the Bank of England’s report on inflation and growth. The media chose to run with the story of growth of the UK economy instead of the fact that inflation could well outstrip wage increases.

At the moment wages and inflation are level pegging at 1.6 per cent, but because of the lower value of sterling, inflation is expected to increase to above two per cent in 2017. So the vote to leave the EU will make working people in the UK poorer, and Article 50 has not been triggered yet.