Letter: The nations of Europe can't survive alone
Your support helps us to tell the story
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.
Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Professor Bush's assertion that the Euro-sceptics "are Churchill's true inheritors" (Letters, 21 September) is as unequivocally wrong as John Redwood's claim that Churchill wished only to belong to a Union of the English-Speaking Peoples.
Both choose to ignore his dramatic offer to France in 1940 that "there shall no longer be two nations, but one Franco-British Union". (See The Community of Europe by DW Urwin, Longman 1991). The offer was not just based on the rhetoric of wartime but backed with detailed study of "economic ... political and military co-operation".
Later, some of those involved in the study of a Franco-British Union were instrumental in developing the supranational institutions that today make up the European Union.
CLINTON G ASHILL
Swansea
Join our commenting forum
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies
Comments