SIR - What if we never had gone into the Common Market in 1973? I wonder what we would have been?
We would, in my mind, be the envy of Europe.
We would still have the right to decide our own immigration policy,we would be able to say who settled in the UK. Agriculture would have been as efficient and prosperous as before we submitted to the rules of a common agriculural policy just to serve the interest of France.
We would still have the most successful fishing industry in Europe but we handed over our fishing waters. Our armed forces would not be facing collapse through our wasting tens of billions of pounds on European projects.
We would still be able to decide whom we could trade with around the world, on our own terms We would still be able to decide for ourselves on those huge areas of foreign policy which are now dictated on an EU wide basis.
JOHN WHITE, Evesham.
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