YP Letters: Propaganda and doom over EU vote

From: M Dobson, York.
the Government leaflet on the EU referendum has angered many voters.the Government leaflet on the EU referendum has angered many voters.
the Government leaflet on the EU referendum has angered many voters.

THE title of the of the Government’s expensive propaganda brochure in favour of staying in the EU is somewhat disingenuous.

As several ministers and a fair number of Tory MPs are actively campaigning for “Brexit” surely the title should have been “Why Some of the Government Believes That Voting to Remain in the EU is the Best Decision for the UK”.

From: Mike Bytheway, Oakwood, Leeds.

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RE the EU pamphlet. It’s okay Dave, I’ve offshored the £9.3 million pamphlet into the green bin.

From: John Redhead, Owst Road, Keyingham, Hull.

I WAS pleased to read the timely reminder from academics that EU membership has helped to protect our countryside.

More mature readers like myself will well remember the days prior to our membership of the Common Market when most of Yorkshire was a desert, with barely a leaf or blade of grass to be found.

I should point out, however, that academics have also warned of far greater risks incumbent upon a vote to leave, so serious that even Mr Cameron shrinks from speaking their name.

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It is well documented that throughout the locust world the outcome of the referendum is eagerly awaited as a ”leave” vote will trigger a plague of these creatures of Biblical proportions. Should we proffer a two-fingered salute to our masters in Brussels, academics are clear that the nation will be stricken by boils, which in the case of Eurosceptics will be concentrated in their nether regions.

From: Andrew Dennis, East Parade, Harrogate.

THOSE backing the “In” campaign are mainly the political failures of our history, Clegg, Kinnock, Mandelson, Blair, Major and Cameron. The question for June 23 is who are you going to believe? Those who want us in for their personal reasons, or those who have been proved right before?

From: H Marjorie Gill, Clarence Drive, Menston.

I CAN’T understand how anyone would wish to stay in this corrupt and profligate organisation which calls itself the European Union. When talking about staying in, nobody mentions the wasteful transit from Brussels to Strasbourg and back annually at an eye-watering cost.

If we had had any influence, we would have insisted that the organisation’s treasurer should be made to resign and be asked to account for the lack of auditing.

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As it is, we get the worst of all worlds, no influence, red tape, interference in our internal affairs, prohibited from helping our industries, but forced to contribute to the welfare of others. Personally I can’t wait to get out of this dreadful situation.

Living beyond our means

From: Canon Michael Storey, Healey Wood Road, Brighouse.

THE letter from DM Loxley (The Yorkshire Post, April 1) was very appropriate on April Fools’ Day. As was pointed out in that letter, notwithstanding what various governments have done in recent times, the National Debt now stands at £1.53 trillion and rising. The average non-mortgage family debt in Yorkshire is £7,110. The UK appears to be living well above its means.

Little effort has been made by governments over the years to support the textile industry and the coal industry, so can we really expect any help for steel? Perhaps there is a need for a reality check and everyone to accept that, on a world stage, we British people can’t expect to be having rising standards of living at a time when we import textiles, coal and steel from sweated “slave” labour abroad?

A day of reckoning seems to loom.

Helping hand of the law

From: Frank Young, Sheffield.

THE other day, I had to have an injection in my eye. I am an 85-year-old man, and needed to phone my wife to collect me.

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Sadly, my mobile wouldn’t work (it said there was no signal). After several attempts, I set off to walk home. On the way, a police car appeared, and I flagged it down and asked the two young officers if they could get a signal.

They couldn’t, so the driver said “jump in, we’ll take you home!” which they very kindly did. How is this for community policing? The officer said how nice it was to be able to help a member of the public.

Penny drops, conveniently

From: Roger Backhouse, Upper Poppleton, York.

IT’S unfortunate the Richmondshire Council officer whose report suggests a 20p charge to use public toilets should use the phrase “represents a new income stream”. Perhaps that could have been better phrased? At least it made me laugh.

The story reminds of the 
1960s when 1d in the slot was required to use a public WC, hence the expression “spend a penny”.

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At the time the borough treasurer of, I think Scarborough, argued that receipts from public conveniences were an “infallible index of the number of visitors to the town”. I couldn’t have put it better myself.

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