Nick Martinek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield.
I HOPE I can reassure the Lib Dem peer Lord Wallace (The Yorkshire Post, April 4) that, after we leave the EU, his “kith and kin” in Europe will still be there, ready and waiting for him to visit.
Why? Because we are leaving a political arrangement (the EU) not re-arranging geography or personal friendships. Talking of friendship, he seems to have gained the false impression that the Leave campaign think the European continent is populated by hostile foreigners. Quite the reverse. It is the Remain camp which claims that Europe is populated by foreigners who are so hostile they will not do a trade deal with the UK after we leave.
As for his contention that the underlying issue is national identity – no, it’s not. It is about independence. We want the same as the more than 60 countries which gained independence from the British Empire – being able to democratically control our own government directly, running our own country ourselves.
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