Mr Vassie says 10,000 criminals have been extradited since the introduction of European Arrest Warrants (Letters, June 15).

If we weren’t in the EU these criminals wouldn’t be here in the first place. Quite frankly I don’t believe we manage to kick out that many anyway because don’t forget they have human rights. It’s a joke.

An own goal comes to mind.

Linda Walker,

Wheldrake, York

Criminals flooded through open border

Christian Vassie shoots himself in the foot with his latest letter to the Press.

He states that in 2004 we extradited only 60 criminals back to their own countries. That number is now 10,000.

This misses the point that thanks to the EU open border policy more than that number of criminals have flooded into this country, which is seen as an easy target.

Let’s start policing our own border to stop them arriving rather than sending them back.

M Cawood,

Branton Place, York

A view of Brexit from our old Morris Minor

AS the Brexit juggernaut (in reality a Morris Minor with wide wheels and a very noisy exhaust system) thunders its way out of the European Union, I wonder if now might be a good time to consider a less acrimonious approach.

Amongst the babel-like cacophony of vested interests (if you are an ordinary Joe those interests are your principles, if you are wealthy it means your money) is the endless refrain “they need us more than we need them”. On many levels this is true.

However, and as an example, as much as Germany needs to export its Mercedes, Audi and BMW cars to Britain (an arguable point, bearing in mind the burgeoning market that is China) Britain has both a need for, and a manufacturing shortage of, those self same vehicles.

So, as we prepare to exit the EU, a little less Trump (eting) winners and losers and a lot more symbiotic thinking may well end up being less damaging to both sides.

Or we could end up sitting in our Morris Minors, watching the sun finally set over Great Britain, music gently easing our pain and muttering to ourselves ‘well I might be a lot worse off than I had hoped, but at least I got custody of The Vera Lynn cassette tape’.

Richard D Bowen,

Farrar Street, York