WE have seen Tony Blair make a total sell-out of Great Britain to the EU.

His actions can only be compared with a closing-down sale of a large business.

He has given away British taxpayers' money mainly to subsidise the French, a country that is on the point of bankruptcy.

Some of the monies will go to the new and poorer members where it will be spent on state-of-the-art manufacturing industries and subsidising their standard of living. That will entice business to move abroad to take advantage of the cheap labour force, creating vast numbers of unemployed in this country.

Such bad politics seem to be Mr Blair's trademark. He should have been negotiating to take Britain out of the EU, letting us create our own trade areas, which was the agreement in 1973 when only trade barriers came down.

We did not join to be ruled by a load of diktats from failed politicians in Brussels, Neil Kinnock and Peter Mandelson to name but two.

Mr Blair has allowed the standard of living for anybody under the age of 45 to be governed by these people. It will very shortly leave them in abject poverty and put them in the same state as the new members are in at the moment.

I am all for helping these people, but not at the expense on my children and my grandchildren. We should help them of our own accord and not be dictated to by the regime in Brussels where they cannot even get their accounts approved mainly due to cheating and corruption.

T J Ryder,

Priory Gardens,

North Lane,

Dringhouses,

York.

Updated: 10:54 Thursday, December 22, 2005