SIR – I felt David Cameron, the Prime Minister, performed rather badly on
The Andrew Marr Show yesterday. His soundbite about the Britain being better off
in a reformed EU might be reasonable if it were true.
He is implying that he has reformed the EU. Perhaps he would be good
enough to explain what major reforms he has elicited and how and when these will
be enshrined in EU law.
What he has achieved is inconsequential trivia that will make no
difference to our debased sovereignty and our control by the EU’s unelected,
unaccountable, undemocratic elite.
It is evident that his attempt to restrict in-work benefits for newly
arrived immigrants has achieved far less than he wanted, and he doesn’t even
know how the phasing on those will work. When asked by Mr Marr “How much will an
immigrant get after nine months”? Mr Cameron didn’t
know.
With two million EU immigrants living and working in Britain (having
arrived in the past five years), Mr Cameron has addressed nothing that will
reduce these numbers. It is widely accepted that his in-work benefits
restrictions will not reduce immigration. What happened to his promise: “I will
reduce immigration to the tens of thousands”?
This whole negotiation has been a pantomime played out to fool the
voters.
Trevor Anderson
Wadhurst, East Sussex. Telegraph.
Wadhurst, East Sussex. Telegraph.
