Reasons to leave the European Union (From York Press)
Get in touch: send your photos, videos, news & views by texting YORK to 80360 or send an email»
You can e-mail your letters to letters@thepress.co.uk
We welcome letters on all topics but please keep them to 200 words at most; shorter letters are most likely to be included. The editor reserves the right to edit letters.
If you wish the letter to appear in The Press you must include your full postal address and a daytime telephone number.
Reasons to leave the European Union
9:31am Thursday 18th March 2010 in
The EU, which has not had its financial statements passed by any set of auditors for the last 14 years (because everyone knows they are massively fraudulent), has now had the cheek to reprimand the UK for not reducing its budget deficit quickly enough and by a large enough amount.
Thankfully, we are not in the euro, so we are not subject to quite the same straitjacket rules as are all the euro-using countries, but this has not stopped the meddling and interfering EU bureaucrats from criticising Britain.
Here is yet more proof why we should leave the European Union.
David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.
• Even during the Second World War we used to have what was undoubtedly the finest agricultural system in the developed world. Then we joined something then called the Common Market.
It is a shambles of subsidies and set-asides, interference, endless bureaucracy and commissioners with zero farming experience, and it has dragged this nation to a pretty low ebb.
Not only can we not produce our own food in any future crisis, but more worryingly, there is no prospect of us ever being able to do so.
We are now dependent on the European Union for the lion’s share of our food – a body which has betrayed this nation’s trust before, with our fisheries, for example, and could hold us to ransom in the future if it chose to do so for political reasons.
Against this backcloth, I note that farming subsidies have hit a record high in the last year for which figures are available.
Will this Common Agricultural Policy insanity by our politicians never end?
We must leave the EU and switch to the associate membership which is working so well for so many nations.
If the Lib-Lab-Cons try to hide this as a point of debate in the coming election, we, the people, must force them to bring all their dirty Euro-dealings into the light.
The only farmers who support this system are those few with massive acreages who are growing wealthy on subsidies. The little man is left filling in forms dozens of pages long and losing money on every pint of milk.
Eric Richards, Pinfold Close, Riccall.
More Letters stories
Most popular
Local Information
Enter your postcode, town or place name
George Appleby says...
4:51pm Thu 18 Mar 10
We are no longer so and our influence in world affairs is fast waning. Would we be better off if our politicians did not answer to the EU? I doubt it. We need to be a strong member, not a reluctant one, and fight our weight in decision making. We cannot stand alone. It wasn't the EU who gave away our manufacturing, utilities and fuel.
Independence can be self defeating. Sylvia is very much so and I love her for it. She will not ask for help. She will trail around the supermarkets until she drops looking for something. She takes on things way beyond her if I don't watch her, and when she was younger and stronger she could do it.
Not now. It's no use kidding ourselves. We English are being isolated in the UK, by the Ministers and MPs from Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland and led vigorously by Blair, Brown while they still sit in Westminster governing us.
A far bigger home grown problem is our useless voting system. Get that sorted and we can turn the tide.