Cameron deserves support against march to federal EU

I APPLAUD David Cameron’s obstinate stand in attempting to block the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the EU Commission (Bernard Ingham, The Yorkshire Post, July 2). The Luxembourg politician’s record reveals a strong streak of Anglophobia and an unrelenting passion for a federal Europe. His appointment seems to collide with the swelling discontent of a growing segment of the European electorate.

I watched a BBC discussion on the issue that included Polly Toynbee, the Guardian pundit, who condemned Cameron for incompetence and asserted that he should have accepted Juncker in order to gain long term leverage on reform. This stance is reiterated by Ed Miliband; his weasel words follow the Labour tradition of signing anything Brussels thrusts before them, allowing the EU to further its inexorable slog towards the Holy Grail. So should Cameron have meekly surrendered his position? Lib Dems and europhiles are always assuring us, that being in the centre of EU negotiations, the UK can mould opinion to our advantage.

But on crucial measures it never happens. And it never will! Just look at where we are now in this grand farce – swamped with excessive and damaging regulation and heading inescapably towards Brussels’ domination with the democratic input as minute as the chance of a turkey surviving Christmas. It is a position that EU supporters declared would never happen. But it has, and that is why, despite the chorus of disapproval, I support the Prime Minister on this one.

From: Allan Davies, Grimsby.

LES Arnott (The Yorkshire Post, June 27) has made a surprising, albeit inadvertent, admission. For years eurosceptics have maintained that we were never told what we were voting for in 1975. He now quotes a tiny principle set out in the Treaty of Rome which was signed in 1956, almost 20 years earlier.

One of the drafters of the Treaty concluded: “This, in the long term implies and is intended to imply fiscal, social, monetary and ultimately, political union.” Never told?

What could be clearer?

From: George Senior, West Cowick, Goole.

I AM surprised Nigel Farage hasn’t taken a load of the dangerous Masham knitted bunting to hang from every window of the building already collapsing under the weight of obesity in Brussels.