YP Letters: EU migrants not to blame on housing

A RECENT letter calling for the post-war spirit to rebuild our housing stock blames the EU for the immigration into this country. Even a cursory examination of the occupation of houses throughout Yorkshire and other parts of the UK will fail to find a significant number of immigrants from the EU.

The immigration into the UK in the 1950s and 1960s came mainly from the former British Empire and the number of immigrants entering this country required a lot of housing throughout the UK.

Blaming the EU for events which took place long before we joined the EU was part of the misinformation used in the referendum. We will not solve problems created by governments in the 50s and 60s by leaving the EU. It is time to face facts.

From: Don Wood, Howden.

MARK Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has once again been spreading his tales of gloom and doom about the economy and, of course, blaming it all on Brexit.

He, of course, omits to tell us the real reason for the rise in inflation and the resulting rise in prices.

This is because shortly after the referendum vote when the pound was already recovering, Mr Carney, in an attempt to damage Brexit, cut the BoE base rate from the already stupidly low 0.5 per cent to 0.25 per cent.

This resulted in everyone selling the pound, causing its value to fall, and the knock on effect of inflation rising causing a rise in the price of imported goods.

Mr Carney alone is responsible for this and no one else. In keeping the base rate at such low levels, he is also creating a personal debt mountain as people borrow more than they can pay back.

From: Hugh Rogers, Messingham Road, Ashby.

THE idea that the deal eventually negotiated for leaving the EU should be put to the people for approval is, of course, nothing more than a delaying tactic designed to frustrate the original decision to leave. We are not falling for that one.

In any case, it should be remembered, in Dronfield Woodhouse as well as the smoke-filled backrooms of Brussels, that we do not actually need a “deal” from our so-called European partners. We can simply put away our metaphorical cheque book, cancel the milk and the papers, and just leave.

Life – and trade – without the EU will just go on. Just you wait and see.

From: Nigel F Boddy, Fife Road, Darlington.

THERESA May introduced in to Parliament something called the Great Repeal Bill. My understanding is that it did not repeal anything.

But doesn’t the Great Repeal Bill simply raise the same gigantic question it has tried to settle? Parliament has always been supreme, hasn’t it? That is what the Brexiteers think, isn’t it?

Has the Great Repeal Bill been made retrospective? I hope so. I do hope so.

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

IT appears not only is Labour hell bent on committing political suicide, but so apparently are the Lib Dems.

There’s nothing like alienating yourself from Christian and elderly voters by announcing that you’ll abolish the married couple’s allowance after we all fought to get David Cameron to reinstate it.

And then to compound their liberal approach to society, they say they will make cannabis a legal drug too – are they insane or what?

Everyone with a modicum of common sense knows that legalising this drug will cost us far more in the long term with more and more addicts succumbing to mental illness.

Of course, all the main political parties are trooping 
out anything they think will be a vote winner – but then just maybe the Lib Dems are trying a tactical approach in a subtle way to get us to vote Conservative to take away Labour votes, especially as they know they 
have absolutely no chance on election day.

From: Edward Grainger, Botany Way, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough.

THERESA May’s vision for Britain’s economic future that, apart from the Brexit negotiations, would provide “well-paid jobs” and “a good school place for every child” are certainly two principles worth fighting for.

Indeed the actor Ian McShane, of Lovejoy fame, voiced his concern (The Yorkshire Post, May 9) that there are so few opportunities for working class actors from the North and “that public school pupils are making it in the industry these days as there are fewer chances for working class actors”.

Righting these wrongs will be a tall order for any Conservative Prime Minister in the education and jobs fields, a constant theme for The Yorkshire Post’s own writer Jayne Dowle

In my letters, I have previously highlighted the unfairness based on my own experience with a son attempting to make his way as a working class actor, who has constantly been aware that his state school educational background and his northern upbringing and accent automatically rules him out from securing more work both in the theatre, and on TV.

From: MK O’Sullivan, Victoria Street, Allerton Bywater, Castleford,

IF Theresa May had the courage of her convictions, she would agree to debate on TV with Jeremy Corbyn, a man whom I cannot relate to, especially on national security.

I am reminded of an expression used in the Second World War by the RAF to describe those who failed to measure up – LMF (Lack of Moral Fibre).

Looking at the likes of Jeremy Hunt, Michael Fallon and Amber Rudd, this saying comes to mind on more than one occasion.

In a few weeks, I will have to cast my vote.

What a choice. Tories with predatory sell-off instincts for the NHS, Labour with Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott and Emily Thornberry who mocked ‘white van man’ during a by-election campaign.