Mr Cameron's national interest
LETTER TO DAILY EXPRESS
Sir,
David Cameron says Britain must be “at the top table. At the UN. The Commonwealth. NATO. The WTO. The G8. The G20. And yes – the EU. Membership of these organisations is not national vanity – it is in our national interest.”
But only one of these organisations requires us to surrender our democratic sovereignty (how can it be in the national interest to abolish the national state?). And that organisation - the European Union - is the most disastrous supranational power in the world with a complete lack of democratic accountability, an all powerful bureaucratic elite, a declining share of world trade, social and welfare collapse in the Mediterranean countries, unemployment averaging 12% with rates for individual countries up to 26% and youth unemployment of well over 50% in Greece and Spain.
If Mr Cameron thinks such "success" is worth the surrender of our 800 year old constitution then he is in a tiny minority. Indeed it is increasingly not even in the interests of big business and the City who are daily being crippled by EU regulation and are reversing their initial enthusiasm for the "European project".
Yours etc
Rodney Atkinson
(Author Europe's Full Circle)
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