YP Letters: Obama intervention shows Brexit would halt trade deal

From: Colin Walshaw, Smithy Court, Scholes, Cleckheaton.
Prime Minster David Cameron (right)  greets US President Barack Obama, ahead of a bilateral meeting in 10 Downing Street, London.Prime Minster David Cameron (right)  greets US President Barack Obama, ahead of a bilateral meeting in 10 Downing Street, London.
Prime Minster David Cameron (right) greets US President Barack Obama, ahead of a bilateral meeting in 10 Downing Street, London.

THANK you very much President Obama, you have given us another excellent reason to leave the EU.

We will go to the back of the queue and have to wait five to 10 years to be allowed to renegotiate treaties like TTIP (the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership) and TISA (the Trade in Services Agreement) with the USA – excellent news for campaigners against these measures.

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Both TTIP and TISA are measures whose details are discussed in secret, and only big corporations have special access to their terms. Their aim is to cover half of global GDP.

From: DM Loxley, Hartoft, Pickering.

THE forthcoming Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership is an exclusive treaty between the USA and the EU.

It will give the USA access to the European market with a distinct benefit for the US. and to the detriment of the EU. Any country not a full member of the European Union would face discrimination.

It would better if were on the “winning” side.

The United Kingdom should therefore leave the European Union and become a part of the United States of America.

From: JD Cusson, Marwood Drive, Brotton, Saltburn.

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BEG your pardon Mr Obama, I have always had a great deal of respect for your opinions – but not on your advice that we should remain a part of the European Union. In fact, I think you have missed a salient point.

If we manage to leave the European Union, then at some point we shall do business with the US. As an independent nation we shall remain a friend and ally.

On the other hand, if we remain as we are today, whether or not we do business with you will be largely a matter of an agreement between the US and the European Union, with us doing as we are told.

Unfortunately, and all in good time, your good friend and ally will no longer exist: having been swallowed by the EU.

From: Paul Rouse, Main Street, Sutton upon Derwent.

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IT would seem that our “special relationship” with the US exists just so long as we do what is best for America, otherwise we “go to the back of the queue”.

Our Prime Minister needs to point out that many of us want to leave the EU because we are fed up of being told what to do by people we have not elected.