BREXIT BLUES OUR VIEW

and, under the guise of diversity, would destroy its culture altogether.

I am constantly enraged by deceitful, self ­ serving politicians, who either have some ulterior motive or are naïve almost beyond belief.

One thing I do try to avoid ­ although it is sometimes difficult ­ is hypocrisy. I do always endeavour to practise what I preach. I have nothing against immigration. In fact, run correctly, I believe it can often be a good thing. Providing the visitors retain the same attitude and respect toward their host country as I maintain myself. Unfortunately the majority of aliens that are pouring into Europe at this time appear to have a different agenda altogether.

I am fervently convinced that if our so­ called leaders don’t wake up soon it will all be too late. Sadly, I fear it already may be.

Keep the faith

Love

MOST recent opinion polls show that there is growing support for Britian to rejoin the European Union, but currently there are no significant UK political parties promoting the concept.

Politicians are nothing if not fickle and with the next General Election due no later than the end of January 2025, a lot could still happen.

Currently, Britian has not reversed the bulk of laws created during its time as a member of the EU and to a great extent, any decision to reapply (and be accepted) would be down to the politics of the next 18 months rather than any legal difficulty. If the Conservatives use the time running up to the next election to reverse most of the above mentioned laws, then any decision to try to rejoin would be more difficult, but if things are left very much as they are then life would be much easier.

Under Article 49 of the EU Treaty, any prospective member must show that it respects the common values of the European Union including ‘human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law’.

In addition, it would have to demonstrate that it is a free and stable country supporting free speech and the concept of democracy.

As all of the existing member states have to unanimously agree to accept a new member and a majority in the European Parliament, there is little doubt that there would be some ‘penalty’ for leaving in the first place, perhaps a requirement to join Schengen or the Euro Zone, but in theory, following a positive referendum in the UK, membership could be obtained within three to five years.

Stocks & Shares LETTERS

Having worked for the Financial Times for 33 years and retiring to Spain in 2006, I pay a special interest in this page.

However, I notice that the title does not live up to its name, JD Sports & Pearson shares are missing from the list of companies and I haven’t checked the whole list!!!

Pearson plc no longer own the Financial Times, so I do not see any reason to exclude them now.

I follow all the FTSE stocks and played a big part in setting up the Company FTSE, so would like to see all 100 companies in the list

Apart from that, I think the Euro Weekly paper is the best. Keep up the good work.

Thank you,

Gary Hayes

Good work

Hi Leapy

Recently back from our twice a year trip to Spain.

No respect ­ could not agree more. My teachers were always called Sir and even if we met after I had left ­ were always still called Sir (though they all had nicknames).

Re Harry & Megan Bet365 are getting back to me!

Keep up the good work.

Not factual

Hiya,

Best Regards Steve

I always enjoy reading local papers when on holiday, but this almost illiterate ‘Scotland stats’ published letter without any evidence or actual facts made me raise my phone and reply...

Right from the start this letter by Jamie JKL Swanson can’t be that accurate, he clearly can’t read. He’s made up stats and blurted them out...

Half educated? ­ Kids in Scotland leave school better or comparable with the UK.

Queen Nicola? ­ not yet.

Violent rapist choose to be gaoled in a women’s prison? Nope, didn’t happen, look into the facts. There was a rather important review to stop this happening.

Four times usual rate of post natal deaths? Are you serious? Nowhere near, the UK is bad in the EU table, well, before England and Wales voted us all out the EU, but you get the gist... This is an outright lie, and a particularly poor taste one.

Salmond bad...? Well as opinions go fair enough, but exonerated.

Humza crooked? Well you’ve got half of Westminster leadership literally getting done for parties during Covid lies, covering for lies, wasting billions during Covid, giving millions in contracts to their friends etc.. and Scotland’s FM has done nothing wrong to be called crooked... yet.

Jamie needs to look at his own life and get that chip off his shoulder.

Thanks Simon SD

Hello yet again

I just love reading your articles. Although it has been said that I am further right than Genghis Khan, I think I am towards middle of the road, which my life’s experience tells me most people are.

You constantly write what most people sit and say to each other: sane, intelligent people that is.

Of course trans people should not be allowed to compete against normal people. It is completely nuts. I am glad to see that homosexual people are trying to put a distance between LGB and the rest of the alphabet! Quite correct. Homosexuality has always existed.

My complaint is that, in recent years, those people are not happy just to be accepted, they seem to want to shout about what they are and tell us all that it is ‘better’, when it is obviously not, because if we were all homosexual the human race would disappear.

Don’t you think, Lee, that the current age will go down in history as the ‘whinging age’. Situations with which we coped and just ‘got on with it’ now need parliamentary discussion. Our mortgages at one time went up to 18 per cent!!! We got on with it. In 1973/74 there was a three­day week because of lack of electricity, the generation of which was severely restricted owing to industrial action by coal miners and railway workers! We managed without extra help.

When I first married, we worked for six years without a holiday in order to save for a house. That house we lived in without carpet on the floors. I knitted the children’s jumpers; made dresses, darned socks, without complaining; and worked doing accounts at home at the same time. My husband was an employed butcher. We were ordinary people.

We did not have international holidays, expensive mobile phones, new cars, X­boxes, take­away food. We did not smoke or drink. I now have a large house in Spain with a swimming pool. People tell me that I am lucky!!!

Nowadays we are supposed to cosset absolutely everybody who does not have whatever. Why can’t they just get on with it and work. The work ethic has disappeared.

And the latest I read was that a woman who was scammed out of life savings thinks that the banks should protect people’s money and it is ‘not our fault’. Why should the rest of us pay for stupidity.

You know, I think that is what I abhor most in life: stupidity.

Going on again ­ sorry Hugs Jane