YP Letters: EU farming police may be wiser than some say

I AM not surprised that Richmond MP Rishi Sunak, a post-truth Brexiteer, promulgates nonsense about the EU bureaucracy, which will not allow a farmer to 
grow cauliflowers after 
cabbage because they are too similar.

Perhaps we should forgive him because his privileged education, Winchester and Oxford, did not teach him about crop rotation, but I am amazed that his corresponding farmer was unaware that cabbage and cauliflower are simply varieties of the same species – Brassica oleracea.

As every competent 
gardener knows, it is bad practice to cultivate the same crops in successive years 
because they require the same nutrients, so the second crop 
will be poorer; in addition it provides an opportunity 
for diseases and pests to proliferate.

This indicates that EU bureaucrats are more intelligent than Brexiteers.

From: Alan Netherwood, Dorchester Avenue, Pontefract.

WHY is Nicola Sturgeon so determined to gain independence for Scotland (Tom Richmond, The Yorkshire Post, January 21)?

First she held a referendum as to whether Scots wished to stay within the UK.

This they decided to do. But now that the UK has voted as a whole to leave the EU, she suddenly won’t accept this, on the grounds that Scotland voted to stay in.

Well, so did many parts of the UK. The difference is that we accept the democratic vote. So why can’t she?

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

WON’T it be interesting if the eventual provisions of Britain’s extraction from the EU turn out to mean that EU citizens will no longer have a right of residency in the UK, and also if the SNP holds its second independence referendum and gains a majority decision to leave the UK and retain its EU membership?

From: Coun Tim Mickleburgh (Lab), Boulevard Avenue, Grimsby.

WHY is it that Labour and the left in general seem quiet about the EU these days? Matters such as undercutting wages and pressure on public services affect those who’ve traditionally backed Labour.

From: Peter Hyde,Driffield.

HAS Theresa May morphed into the second Margaret Thatcher?

Her speech on our leaving the EU was inspirational. Let’s hope she can carry it through and put to silence the tongues of the fools who would go against the wishes of the electorate.

From: Samuel Moore, Halifax.

DON’T fool yourselves. Now we are leaving the EU, the same people who received unreasonably high pay packets for us being in are still going to get them. They were what I thought was wrong with the EU.

The few laws that niggled people, and the large number of sensible ones, are costing a fortune to untangle and reweave. Things aren’t going to miraculously get better.

From: Edward Grainger, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough.

BY common consent, to judge by the numerous letters from ordinary people across Yorkshire from the Humber to the Tees, all carefully constructed to The Yorkshire Post, the EU referendum and subsequent correspondence and articles centre clearly on the need for all of us to take back control before the machinery of government consumes us all.

How ironic that when Brexit negotiations are completed, this region will regret not having done more to save Redcar’s steelworks.

From: Peter Bye, Addingham.

IF the current standards of media reporting and commentating had existed during the Second World War we would have been assailed with information as to how we were going to lose and speculation as to the aftermath. I suspect Winston Churchill would have been more than slightly annoyed.

From: Don Wood, Howden.

THE single market was first mentioned in the Treaty of Rome in 1957, long before the EU existed. It was steadily developed by stealth.

In David Cameron’s propaganda booklet issued to every house in Britain before the referendum, he made it quite clear that a vote to leave the EU would be a vote to leave the single market, and that there would not be a second referendum.

UK critics won’t worry Trump

From: MK O’Sullivan, Allerton Bywater, Castleford.

CAST your mind back 12 months and the start of the 2016 primary campaigns and the sneering, dismissal and ridicule of Donald Trump by so many liberals here.

He can’t be elected, he is not suitable, everything about him is wrong, Hillary Clinton is the obvious choice. Inauguration day told a different tale (The Yorkshire Post, January 21).

The Trump critics here forgot, still forget, it is the US voters who will judge President Trump, they alone in 2018 and 2020.

I wonder how many people on Question Time and other BBC programmes have forgotten this fact. Donald Trump has no need to bother with them.

A bay worth celebrating

From: Don Webb, Rothwell.

I WAS happy to see Robin Hood’s Bay included in the list of the world’s top 25 beaches.

I always remember someone asking directions to Robin Hood’s Bay, to which some wag replied “Tied up behind the Red Lion, next to Friar Tuck’s donkey”.