Letters: Call to oblivion
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: No doubt there are arguments against our joining European monetary union, but surely there must be stronger ones than John Barnett's claim that we would do better to emulate Norway and its "more dynamic" economy (letter, 14 April).
More dynamic than Germany, Italy, France or Spain? So where are all these Norwegian cars, aircraft, agricultural products, clothing,cultural artefacts? In all my 60-odd years of life I don't remember ever buying anything from Norway, or coming across anything at all, except Ibsen.
So as far as I am concerned, emulation of Norway , however dynamic, would mean economic oblivion, or at best irrelevance. This is not going to convince me, or anyone else, that we must keep out of Euroland.
RON SONNET
Southsea,
Hampshire
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