SIR – Charles Moore (Comment, May 4), says, regarding the UK’s
adherence to the then EEC, that “people have increasingly come to believe they
were lied to”.
They were lied to. I took part in the Commons debates and the referendum of 1975, and, along with others opposed to membership, explained time and again that this was only a step towards a United States of Europe where sovereignty was not “shared”, in the weasel word of that time, but “transferred”.
Nothing has changed. People continue to be duped or lied to over a renegotiation that is likely, as in 1975, to be designed to leave the Brussels project untouched.
Jim Sillars
Edinburgh, Daily Telegraph Letters.
They were lied to. I took part in the Commons debates and the referendum of 1975, and, along with others opposed to membership, explained time and again that this was only a step towards a United States of Europe where sovereignty was not “shared”, in the weasel word of that time, but “transferred”.
Nothing has changed. People continue to be duped or lied to over a renegotiation that is likely, as in 1975, to be designed to leave the Brussels project untouched.
Jim Sillars
Edinburgh, Daily Telegraph Letters.
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