YP Letters: Brexit has made a mess of Britain

The Tory party has been in turmoil since Boris Johnson won the Brexit vote and then dropped out of the leadership race when David Cameron resigned.

HAVING engineered a referendum in an attempt to capture the Ukip vote and where they convinced the electorate – or half of it – that they should blame immigrants for all the woes in public services rather than the draconian cuts they have implemented over the years, the Conservative and Unionist Party (which might have to change that title) now have a bunfight amongst themselves to see which right-winger will eventually become PM and party leader. There is a goodly selection of buffoons, pseudo-intellectuals and bankers – what a choice!

Brexit was not, in my opinion, about the European Union, democracy or sovereignty, whatever that is, but about the Conservative Party. David Cameron’s hope that he might attract disaffected voters from across the spectrum, and the leadership. It was also about, and I hate to say it, racism and intolerance since we can now see the results: children being abused at school; adults being abused in the street and on public transport, and idiots parading around with T-shirts reading “We won: send ‘em back”.

All round Cameron came unstuck and we now have a country without an established Government or Opposition, coupled with a rise in extremism and intolerance.

Some Labour voters will no doubt be pleased that they have helped the rise of neo-Conservatism and we can all look forward, God help us, to “another Margaret Thatcher” as Andrewa Leadsom says, whether or not she is eventually declared the “winner”. Forget the state of the country, guys, sort out our Great Leader first!

I am reminded of a line from Shakespeare’s Richard II: “That England that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Anyone disagree?

From: Adrian F Sunman, Lunn Lane, South Collingham, Newark.

I DISAGREE with your Editorial (The Yorkshire Post, June 1). There was certainly spinelessness, dereliction of duty, cowardice, betrayal and treachery but it was all on Michael Gove’s part.

It was he who chose to sabotage Boris Johnson’s leadership and Prime Ministerial prospects at the 11th hour by withdrawing his support and standing as a candidate himself.

In so doing he has managed to split the Tory party and, potentially at least, deprive the country of a first rate Prime Minister.

From: David Buick, Ilkley.

BORIS Johnson accuses the Government of not delivering a Brexit plan. They had one. It was his leadership manifesto.