YP Letters: PM deserted his post as UK flounders

HOW right are all the letters sent in to The Yorkshire Post. As soon as David Cameron said he would resign, I said “Oh my he’s taking his bat and ball home – he’s just not playing any more – it’s got nothing to do with him if his ship is floundering”.

I always thought a good captain was either the last to leave – or went down with his ship.

From: Phyllis Capstick, Hellifield, Skipton.

THE march in London against the result of the referendum is indicative of how completely disrespectful some people are to the democratic system that, hopefully, is still in operation in this country.

We fought two world wars against being taken over and controlled by outside forces, and we must fight again to make this Brexit decision work for us all.

From: Raymond Norton, Edale Grove, Queensbury, Bradford.

I FOUND the article by Ted Bromund (The Yorkshire Post, July 1) very interesting from, I presume, an American with “no axe to grind”.

However I was a little surprised he made no mention of the difference between their “Independence Day” and ours. After all, they also wanted to break away from British trade restrictions, which was similar to our problem with the EU.

The “Boston Tea Party” makes interesting reading too with the “war of independence” starting soon after in 1775. After the defeat of the British, with help from the French, Spanish and the Dutch no less, they still had many years before their economy was straightened out. It was 1783 when Britain acknowledged their independence.

From: Charles Pope, Easingwold, York.

LIKE our own MP Kevin Hollinrake, Theresa May was a supporter of the unsuccessful “Remain” campaign. However, and despite her confrontation with the Police Service and the contempt she showed for it by appointing a faceless bureaucrat to do her bidding as its Chief Inspector, I have immense respect for everything else she has done as Home Secretary, a post I hope she will retain.

Nevertheless, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, and the country in general, has voted for the winning campaign to leave the EU which was led by principled people who had the moral and political courage to do so. I believe, thus, that one of them should be elected to be the next leader of the Conservative Party.

Mr Hollinrake, like all other Tory MPs, should respect the will of his own electorate by supporting the “Leave” candidate, while Mrs May can 
be a powerful advocate in the new government for the views 
of the “Remain” camp, as we seek to heal the divisions in our country.

From: A Hague, Bellbrooke Grove, Harehills, Leeds.

I BELIEVE Nigel Farage was the man the Outers should thank most for winning and the bad losers should dry their eyes and accept the fact it was a fair fight and they lost.

From: Mrs P Harrison, Alwoodley, Leeds.

THE success of the Leave campaign to leave the EU has shown what a selfish, self- centred, undemocratic nation we have become.

To all the Remain people with your disgust and nasty comments, what do you want? The freedom of a democracy or a dictatorship?

I still believe I am along with everyone else entitled to my opinion. I may be getting on a bit in years, but I have had 43 years to make up my mind about the EU and leaving seems the best thing to do for everyone.

A large number of the Remain campaigners have not reached the age of 43 yet, and many more were young children at the time of the last referendum, so what gives them the right to slate the Leave campaigners?

I have no regrets about my decision and hope the freedom to vote will remain for everyone with no hard feelings.

From: Mr D Smith, Sandhill Way, Harrogate.

THE exit from the EU is indeed a wise decision.

The expansion of the EU into eastern Europe is an accute embarrassment for Russia and one can understand the political protectionist reactions of Mr Putin. Far from keeping the peace, the EU is, in fact, heading for a catastrophic confrontation and we are well out of it.

From: Mrs PS Ogden, Rayner Road, Brighouse.

NOW that 52 per cent of the UK have voted to leave the EU, thereby committing “economic suicide”, losing our trade and taking away the future of our young, why did people vote for “Brexit”?

The referendum showed how people felt for the first time. A vote against “Call me Dave” and his Government. A vote against the Government by Labour supporters. A vote against the bankers.

It is a vote for xenophobia whipped up by Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson’s anti-immigrant stance and lies about the EU generally. Turkey is not going to join the EU anytime soon nor are we going to have a European Army.

Purely cricket

From: CP Dawson, West Ella Road, West Ella, Hull.

NO doubt that the powers-that-be at Headingley will use Yorkshire’s recent innings defeat by Middlesex at North Marine Road (the first in 120 years at Scarborough) as an excuse for removing one of the two four-day County games they play there and replacing it with a one-day match (or even two).

May I remind them that Scarborough, with generally larger crowds than Headingley, remains Yorkshire’s only outpost and both four-day games are hugely supported.

Many people still enjoy the “purity” of four-day county cricket and what better place to enjoy this than Scarborough?