Letter: Major misses the real issue on Europe

Robert Readman
Thursday 17 April 1997 23:02 BST
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Sir: The Prime Minister now states that the Conservatives will not take Britain into a federal European state and that we will not opt for EMU without a referendum.

Does he take the British public for fools? If the first statement is true then the second is irrelevant. If the second statement is true then a referendum could negate the first. A federal European state could not be achieved without EMU and any nation opting for EMU would inevitably have to become part of a federal Europe.

There is only one question we need to ask ourselves. Do we wish to live under laws passed by our own democratically elected parliament or under laws passed by an unelected body of fat cats in Brussels whose only talent is the ability to bury their snouts in the largest trough on the biggest gravy train the world has ever seen?

ROBERT READMAN

Poole, Dorset

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