From: Nick Martinek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield.
I SEE that John Murray (Yorkshire Post, May 22) is still peddling the same defeatism about the British having to be propped up by the EU because he thinks we are unable to stand on our own feet. His sole “reasoning” seems to be based on epithets –“europhobic”, “extreme right”, “dogma-like obsession” etc, rather than logic or facts.
Most peculiar of all, he champions President Obama’s view that the EU is the “expression of the UK’s influence and role in the world”. In fact President Obama has neither the right nor the responsibility to speak for Britain.
The reality is that the British view is frequently, indeed normally, over-ruled in the EU; consequently the EU reduces the furtherance of British interests globally.
Moreover UK global interests are not best served by a Prime Minister who unequivocally insists that Britain should remain shackled to the EU. It is for that reason Mr Cameron is in trouble with his party – members of which voted for a Tory PM and got an heir-to-Blair europhile instead, who has betrayed Conservative principles and the country too.
I SEE that John Murray (Yorkshire Post, May 22) is still peddling the same defeatism about the British having to be propped up by the EU because he thinks we are unable to stand on our own feet. His sole “reasoning” seems to be based on epithets –“europhobic”, “extreme right”, “dogma-like obsession” etc, rather than logic or facts.
Most peculiar of all, he champions President Obama’s view that the EU is the “expression of the UK’s influence and role in the world”. In fact President Obama has neither the right nor the responsibility to speak for Britain.
The reality is that the British view is frequently, indeed normally, over-ruled in the EU; consequently the EU reduces the furtherance of British interests globally.
Moreover UK global interests are not best served by a Prime Minister who unequivocally insists that Britain should remain shackled to the EU. It is for that reason Mr Cameron is in trouble with his party – members of which voted for a Tory PM and got an heir-to-Blair europhile instead, who has betrayed Conservative principles and the country too.
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