YP Letters: Freedom from EU is not relegation from the world's top tier

From: James Kenny, Rothwell, Leeds.
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What will be the outlook for Brexit in 2018?

REMOANER John Cole (The Yorkshire Post, December 29) continues to flood the letters page with dubious rhetoric.

He says the IMF (that noble independent authority without any axe to grind) predicted a downward trajectory for the UK economy and that as a consequence of voting to leave our economy is performing outstandingly badly.

This is so not the case.

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Presumably John you were among those predicting massive job losses, a 20 per cent fall to house prices, pensions and savings being decimated – the gospel according to Nick Clegg, George Osborne and Vince Cable?

Thankfully an increasing majority trust in a future that will see our transition from bit-players in a corrupt unelected union to global architects of fair free trading partnerships across all continents.

As for his talk of the UK’s relegation from the so-called Premier League to the Championship in football parlance, the Premier League clubs he speaks of are financed from all corners of the world and a once magnificent competition is now a boring billionaires’ playground. Rank and file supporters struggle to afford to join in.

Far from self-relegation, we should consider Brexit as returning to fair competition with common values and leave the elite to their greedy vanity pursuits, bending rules to suit them as they see fit and wanting a rematch if they lose.

From: Don Wood, Howden.

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WHERE does John Cole get the silly idea that Britain has any influence at the EU and that we are a major player at the EU?

Has this gentleman forgotten David Cameron’s pathetic renegotiation attempt with the EU?

Two questions. What have the Remainers got against self-government? Why do they want us to be governed by a German dictatorship?

Our economy is looked after by business and not the Government, and they will not allow it to fail, no matter what the EU try.

From: Hilary Andrews, Nursery Lane, Leeds.

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WILL your correspondent John Cole never tire of telling us that we shouldn’t accept the democratic vote to leave the EU?

I don’t mind him using a football analogy to instruct us of our folly but I will have his guts for garters if he starts on cricket!

Accept it. We are leaving the EU.