SIR – “Don’t quit EU,” say county businessmen with their own interests at heart (Worcester News, January 24), but I think it highly unlikely that, were we to leave, a trade war would ensue.
We are just too valuable a market for European exporters.
The danger is that, as in 1975, the debate will be obscured by spurious trade considerations.
The fact is that the destination of the European project has always been political union.
The only question we need to ask ourselves is: “Do we want to see our country reduced to a bunch of regions in an undemocratic, one party, socialist super state?” Yes or no?
I don’t care if Europe was to take 100 per cent of our exports. It would not be worth that price.
Sovereignty is the issue. That means having a sackable Parliament deciding our laws, not having them imposed by clerks in Brussels.
John Shearon wrote that we joined the EU and have to “stick to the rules” (Worcester News, January 24).
He forgets the fact that we were misled in 1973 and that the real issue was never properly debated then, or in 1975 when we had a referendum. I see no logical argument for staying in the maddest political experiment since Caligula made his horse a consul.
Anthony Warburton
Malvern
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