YP Letters: UK would be winner in a trade tariff battle with the EU

Bank of England governor Mark Carney, the only leader with a post-Brexit plan.

DESPITE robustly supporting the Remain campaign, I firmly believe that the EU requires fundamental reform: not those petty tweaks agreed by David Cameron with Frau Merkel. Otherwise the wider benefits of EU membership materially outweighed the clear (exaggerated) costs.

My trusted Brexiteer friends stressed that there is no evidence for belief that the EU has either the structural will, or capacity, to effect significant reform, without prior political revolution.

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond MP now reiterates the EU post-referendum threat that there can be no future free access to the market without the UK maintaining free movement of people.

This is nonsense! If the next PM triggers Article 50, certain that the UK will restrict people access consistent with the Brexit case, then the EU levies tariffs and the UK applies reciprocal tariffs. The value of EU exports to the UK significantly exceeds those in the reverse direction, leaving HM Treasury a major net beneficiary, providing scope to protect their competitive position by refunding those EU’s tariffs to UK exporters.

HMRC would need to enhance its monitoring capacity to ensure that exporter claims were genuine, but there can be just one winner from this gambit – not the EU.

From: Ged Dempsey, Wath upon Dearne, Rotherham.

INSTEAD of these futile political games, Labour MPs should now roll their sleeves up and get stuck in to the job. Show loyalty to the members, leader and country by taking on the divided Tories and work like hell to fight them over their vile policies that affect the people out there.

People are crying out for this to happen instead of their self-indulgence. Let’s unite together for equalities and combat the rise of racism and xenophobia. In the interests of our families, we need to fight like hell against the Tories and their vile, callous policies.

From: Martin Fletcher, Flanders Court, Thorpe Hesley.

THE SNP should not even be allowed to vote on this. Let them go to the EU.

From: Peter Hyde, Driffield.

THE current political situation reminds me of two television programmes. The Tories are rather like Emmerdale where situations are eventually sorted whereas Labour is like The Jeremy Kyle Show with opposing parties yelling at each other.