YEP Letters: February 6

Protesters gather in Leeds to demonstrate against President Trump's immigration policies and his planned state visit to the UK.

Check out today's YEP letters

It’s time to fight for Britain

CW Allman, Farsley

ALL these people who are protesting about Mr Trump, when our own country is in a bad state why don’t they protest against our government about the NHS and how it is being ruined?

Our elderly people being treated like rubbish. Care homes being closed. All the food kitchens for the poor and employment and poor wages. This has not just started like Mr Trump. This started over five years ago when Cameron and Clegg got in and promised to save everything they have destroyed. And Mr Trump has not been in a month yet and he is doing what he said he would do when he was running for president. So all these people should be protesting for Britain to save what we are losing.

March to get Mr Hunt out of the NHS before he sells that off. And get local MPs to fight for the NHS and better for the elderly and the future. We all grow old. So get your priorities right and fight for Britain. And let the Americans fight for America.

Worry about a creeping facism not Brexit

Mike Harwood, Leeds 5

Insofar as he seems to think that a referendum is somehow sacrosanct, Richard Burgon (YEP Letters February 2), shows himself a bit weak on his constitutional theory.

Our sovereign and democratic Parliament monitored by our democratic courts can change any existing law, not just a referendum result, and will hopefully always do so if it considers it in the best interest of the country. If it were otherwise, presumably the referendum leading us into the European Union could not now be overridden by a referendum to get us out.

However, as he does say, ‘In’ or ‘Out’ should no longer be the matter of concern. The thought, pedalled during the referendum campaign, that leaving the EU would somehow be a blow against the ‘establishment’ (whatever that means) and give power back to the nation/the people is, and always was a nonsense. No man is an island and, In or Out, this island, like any other country, to survive will have to agree and be subject to terms on which to trade, travel, and interact in every way with other states whether European or non-European. That we would probably be economically better off within Europe than without is, as Burgon says, now beside the point. And, In or Out, capitalist self interest will govern. In or Out, the disparity in wealth and power has increased, is increasing and will continue to increase. In or Out will not change that, and neither May nor Trump intend to let it.