YP Letters: So much for the Liberal Democrats' pitch to young voters

Sir Vince Cable has a tough job as the new Lib Dems leader. (PA).

Newly elected Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has used his acceptance speech to campaign for ‘an exit from Brexit’.

Calling for a second referendum on EU membership when the terms of the United Kingdom’s departure finally  are negotiated, Mr Cable has insisted that the concerns of the young must be taken into account.

The Liberal Democrat refrain is that young people did not vote to become poorer. And off course, this is true.

But neither young people nor their parents voted to become poorer when Labour’s David Blunkett introduced student fees.

Similarly, they did not vote to become poorer when the Conservatives first retained and then substantially increased the fees.

And they didn’t vote to become poorer when Mr Cable and his Liberal Democrats supported those increases – despite having promised to abolish student fees altogether.

To paraphrase a previous Conservative mantra, ‘They’re all in it together’.

From: Jarvis Browning, Fadmoor, York.

We seem to have another thorn in our side!

New Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable who is going against the very people who quite justly voted for Brexit.

This is meant to be an all-party negotiation to get the very best deal for all of us and for Great Britain.

When are they going to wake up to the fact that there is absolutely no going back now? They need to accept that out is out!

From: Don Burslam,Elm Road, Dewsbury Moor, Dewsbury.

It has become rather fashionable to sneer at the Lib Dems but the party can take comfort from the steep rise in membership to over 100,000 and a strong group in the Lords.

Their small number of  MPs is entirely the result of  the first-past-the-post  electoral system which cheats the smaller parties of their proper representation,  making it difficult to obtain a hearing.

Sir Vince Cable is clearly  the pick of an undistinguished set of party leaders and as the reality of Brexit becomes more and more difficult to spin positively, the tide may start to turn.

The party is in a strong place strategically.