YP Letters: Blue-sky claims about life after Brexit just don't add up

A boat carrying Bob Geldof takes part in a pro-EU counter demonstration, as a Fishing for Leave pro-Brexit "flotilla" makes its way along the River Thames in London.

THE “Leave” campaign beguiles voters with their blue sky promises, not least immigration will be controlled and our young people will fill all those low paid jobs in care homes, food processing factories, hospitals etc.

There will be more money for the NHS, in fact much more and for everyone else for that matter. The quotation “if this all sounds too good to be true, it probably is” springs to mind.

From: Michael J Robinson, Park Lane, Berry Brow, Huddersfield

IF Chancellor George Osborne anticipates something as serious as a £30bn deficit in the Government’s finances if Britain votes to leave the EU, should not the tax increases he threatened be offset by retaining the money paid out in foreign aid?

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

RE the threat that workers’ rights will be lost, there is no reason why the sensible legislation that the EU introduced cannot remain.

From: Roger Whitaker, Hardwick Road, Pontefract.

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady says Brexit would have massive implications for jobs, rights and the very fabric of the UK. “If you take that floor away, workers will be worse off,” she said. Did the EU stop workers being exploited by allowing zero hours contracts?

From: Dennis Whitaker, Baildon, Shipley.

WE are told it will take two years for a complete Brexit. In the UK, a week is a long time in politics. Just think what two years in Europe is likely to yield.

From: Nick Martinek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield

ACCORDING to Matthew Ambler (The Yorkshire Post, June 14) we shall be richer in the EU. Indeed he has said that for every £1 we put in the EU we get back nearly £10. That would actually make the EU little more than a Ponzi scheme. He may believe it, but the rest of us don’t.

From: Dr Glyn Powell, Kellington, Goole.

DAVID Cameron’s disgraceful attempt to blackmail OAPs into voting to stay in the EU by threatening state pension levels and other benefits should serve as a warning that this Government will be closely examining these issues after June 23.