I NOTE that Mr Margrett (Letters, September 17) tells us that a 'capable' (this is a laugh to start with) Mr Mandelson was able to negotiate on our behalf with China on the problem of textiles because he represented a large European Union.
There would not have been a problem in the first place if it had not been the European Union with its fat cat unelected bureaucratic commissioners making impetuous decisions on our behalf, then having to retract most of the conditions they had imposed.
Prior to the so called "Common Market" this country had a wonderful trading relationship with the rest of the world with special trading advantages with our own Commonwealth countries. We had to abandon these at our cost when joining the straitjacket of the European trading bloc, which is now run by and for the advantage of France and Germany.
Of course, we would expect Mr Margrett with his obsession with the European Federal State to try to twist a discredited, red-faced and arrogant Mr Mandelson into some sort of hero.
D CHURCH (MISS),
Droitwich.
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