THERE was news last week that will warm the cockles of every English heart.
Fifty-six per cent of us are opposed to the infernal euro. Isn't that splendid news?
It explains the jiggery-pokery of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's 'five tests'.
They won't now be met, because the Government can't ram the Euro down our throats. However, it isn't all good news.
Our Prime Minister - who governs with a landslide majority in an electoral system in which most electors voted against Labour - is refusing to hold a referendum on the European Constitution, probably because it would be rejected.
France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Italy, Holland, Denmark and Ireland all intend to hold referenda - so much for democracy in our nation!
This "constitution" will mean that Europe will take over the running of our nation. It gives Europe complete authority over our nation's foreign policy, defence, the economy (our mortgage and taxation rates) law, policing, commercial policy, health, transport. In short, everything!
One might expect that Her Majesty's Opposition would offer alternative policies.
Wrong! The best the Opposition can do is demand a referendum, because the Conservatives are split right down the middle on Europe, as well as being too busy stabbing each other in the back.
No elected politicians appear to speak for the 56 per cent of us who want nothing to do with the euro, or the 80 per cent of us that want nothing to do with Europe's United States.
N TAYLOR,
Worcester.
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