EU theory that is difficult 
to grasp

From: AW Clarke, Wold Croft, Sutton on Derwent.

CAN any of your clever readers please explain to me how it is that countries in Europe, who have failed to produce success within business or increased their output since becoming members of the European Union, should expect the more industrious nations to save them from bankruptcy (Daniel Hannan, Yorkshire Post, September 15)?

I have never grasped the theory that, when we became embroiled in the organisation, the Germans and to a lesser extent the other successful countries in the union, should be expected to save the less enterprising from their, often deserved, fate. After all, we have been living in an industry led world for very many years and the Greeks and other threatened countries have been aware of the consequences of spending what they don’t have and can’t produce, as have the hard-working Germans who, because of their success, are in line to provide a great deal of the finance to rescue those failing countries.

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To my, probably naive mind, the combining of such diverse peoples was always going to produce the outcome we have today. Like many people, I begin to believe that the whole plan was ill-conceived and has been nothing but an opportunity for thousands of faceless people to make a very good living for very little effort at the expense of the rest of Europe.

Democracy, it is not.

From: Godfrey Bloom, Ukip MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

REGARDING the launch of Conservative Voice by Liam Fox and David Davis, both gentlemen should be aware they are members of the Conservative Party under David Cameron which has supported the formation of an EU External Action Service – this helps close down British embassies abroad while costing the European taxpayer £400,000m each year.

Conservative Party MEPs have also voted in favour of EU regulation of the City of London which would help destroy our financial services industry. On top of this, the party of which they are members has supported the European Arrest Warrant which allows innocent UK citizens and residents to face the harsh legal systems in so many EU countries.

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Instead of being members of a political party which supports job-killing, democracy-destroying legislation inspired by the EU, members of this new group should join Ukip and be part of a political party whose stated policy is to reclaim British democracy from the EU.

From: John Rookes, Bramley, Rotherham.

CECIL Hallas makes some interesting points (Yorkshire Post, September 8) regarding the EU and some good reasons for our departure, what Britain and the vast majority of British people require is the same sort of arrangement that Alec Salmond wants for Scotland within the UK.

That is, to be a good neighbour but not ruled by Westminster. We should be good neighbours to the Europeans but not ruled by Brussels. As he points out, deporting the odious Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada is no business of the European Parliament.

Britain pays too much attention to world opinion on such matters instead of adopting a Sir Winston Churchill salute.

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From: Dr David Hill, chief executive, World Innovation Foundation, Huddersfield.

SINCE the end of the Second World War, successive politicians in the West became complacent that the empire would always prevail.

Like the Romans and all others that have gone before and after, complacency destroyed their standards of living and their socio-economic dominance. Like the leaders of these former economic and military powers, they could not see the woods for the trees and what was happening in the wider world.

They never took any notice of outsiders or their advice and eventually when all the walls came down, they were oblivious to how this had happened or why. Indeed these former empires were insular.

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Does this all ring a similar bell with the EU? If people have any intelligence it should as it is becoming fact.

The EU has all the hallmarks and pointers that these former empires had before they were destroyed by external forces.

Credit Default Swaps (CDSs) from the early 1990s are a part of the reason why the EU has become a central platform to support at all cost with the people’s wealth and money 
(note, not the money of our illustrious leaders or bureaucrats).

The thinking of our EU leaders and senior bureaucrats that have managed all this decline (that will continue indefinitely unless they start listening to outsiders) has been sheer madness and eventually there will be only one loser, the 500 million European citizens.

From: David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.

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The euro is on borrowed time. It cannot – and must not – continue. Even the mighty Germany cannot, and nor should it, save the euro from failure. The likes of Greece, Ireland and Portugal are bad enough, but now that Spain and Italy are, in truth, bankrupt, the truth must be faced.