YP Letters: We should heed Brexit wisdom and experience of Lord Heseltine

Michael Heseltine's position on Brexit reveals Tory splits.

SOME of your readers will know me as a paid-up Liberal Democrat. I have spent much of my life fighting Conservative politicians but occasionally co-operating with them. They are not all bad all of the time.

Michael (Lord) Heseltine is a case in point – one who harks back to a less-abrasive “One Nation” Conservatism.

In a recent interview Lord Heseltine is quoted as saying: “Referenda seldom reflect the issue under discussion.” In his view in June last year: “People were looking for a scapegoat (for frozen living standards and anxieties about immigration) and the EU was the convenient candidate.”

To the above he added: “I think (signing Article 50) is the worst decision we’ve made since the war.” I could not agree more.

In the coming election the more voters who heed the wisdom and experience of this political big beast the better. Theresa May should not be given a blank cheque for hard Brexit.

From: Jack Caley, Aldbrough, Hull.

THE Europeans are sad to be leaving us, they have only themselves to blame. Had they granted a naive David Cameron concessions, they might have avoided all this. He went to them with a problem of immigration and benefits, a problem which is now showing in other European countries, but they threw him out. Instead they ought to have reversed our contribution and paid us to integrate their citizens in to the UK.

From: Hilary Andrews, Nursery Lane, Leeds.

SO the 27 countries of the EU took just four minutes to decide the terms of the UK leaving the union. And they are all unanimous and will stick together in negotiations.

What tosh. Francois Hollande has only a few more days as President of France, Angela Merkel is up for election later in the year and the rest are flaky. I’m sure if Greece was offered a favourable deal with the UK, its people would snap it up.

From: Tom Howley, Marston Way, Wetherby.

PRIME Minister Theresa May would not deny that the triple lock state pension safeguard would not be protected by her new administration and she made it clear in her TV interview with Andrew Marr that she believed the pensioners had been treated too generously by her predecessor.

The over-65s should make protests to their MPs and demand that the triple lock arrangement should continue.