YP Letters: Why we are voting to leave EU

IN the referendum on the EU, I will vote to leave. I believe in more freedom, self-determination and human rights in line with our ancestry, and not more regulation determined by others which will arise from more integration.

My background includes a lengthy period as a Conservative councillor for Harrogate with six years as leader and many years on the Regional Assembly alongside many impressive Labour leaders.

David Cameron favours the south of the UK, fails to look after our interests on many important issues such as the NHS and fracking, is not trustworthy and seems to live on Fantasy Island.

From: Tim Hunter, Farfield Avenue, Knaresborough.

JUDGING by David Cameron’s recent assertion that Brexit could put peace at risk, the ‘Remain’ camp looks like it’s getting pretty desperate. Soon they’ll be telling us there’ll be plagues of locusts, swarms of wild beasts and thunderstorms of hail and fire. Then they’ll tell us we’ll be visited by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and we’ll have war, famine and death if we leave the EU.

Look, the main threat to peace in the modern world is terrorism and the EU can do nothing about that.

From: Tim Mickleburgh, Boulevard Avenue, Grimsby.

WHILE it may be true that most Labour MPs are Europhiles, I’ve no idea whether that translates to the party as a whole. We’ve never had a vote on the issue at membership level, and I for one certainly support Brexit, as did my MP for many years, Austin Mitchell.

From: DM Loxley, Hartoft, Pickering.

IF the UK votes to remain in the EU, we will adopt the euro currency. This has already started with the transfer of the London Stock Exchange to the Frankfurt Boerse. The banking and financial institutions will follow almost immediately.

From: RPN Outhwaite, Main Street, Sicklinghall, Wetherby.

WE are gradually approaching June 23 and as it is one of the most important votes that I will ever place in the box, can you please tell me exactly what the Prime Minister achieved in all his days and nights of negotiation in Europe? Nobody I have asked the question has been able to answer.

From: Andrew Mercer, Guiseley.

CAN David Cameron explain why his re-negotiation did not include the EU publishing audited accounts? If it did, the Remain argument might be more convincing.