Our economy is being sunk by the euro

DURING the last week or so, both David Cameron and George Osborne have blamed the euro and the eurozone as the cause of our double dip recession.

Mr Osborne has also refused to sign off on the EU accounts because 40 billion euros are missing and unaccounted for (nothing new there then).

Despite this Mr Osborne has stupidly agreed to “lend” a further £10m to the IMF which will then go to the Eurozone in a failed attempt to save their Mickey Mouse currency which is wrecking the European economy and giving the world markets constant jitters.

Employment Secretary Chris Grayling has also blamed the EU for our unemployment rising.

Yet these gross incompetents still try and convince us that the EU and the euro are vital for us.

The EU and its worthless currency the euro is as vital to Britain and the rest of Europe as the hole was to the Titanic.

When are these blind foolish people going to wake up and listen to what the people of this country already know and are telling them. The EU and its funny money are destroying Britain and we want out.

Honourable mention

From: D Lakin, Bishophill Senior, York.

I READ your article (Yorkshire Post, May 4) on the presentation of new colours to the Coldstream Guards with great interest.

I feel however that I should point out an error in the reporting – while being the longest continuously serving regular regiment in the army it is not the longest serving regiment in the entire army.

That distinction falls to a territorial unit, the Honourable Artillery Company, which received a Royal Charter from Henry VIII on 25 August 1537 , when Letters Patent were issued authorising them to establish “a perpetual corporation for the defence of the realm to be known as the Fraternity or Guild of Artillery of Longbows, Crossbows and Handgonnes”.

This body has been known by a variety of names since, but today is called the Honourable Artillery Company, and is the oldest regiment in continuous service in the British Army.

School meal history lesson

From: Peter Hyde, Kendale View, Driffield, East Yorkshire.

I AGREE with Jayne Dowle (Yorkshire Post, May 3) about every child being able to have a healthy school meal. As she says, in many cases this is very often the only proper meal they will have all day.

Watching some of the young mothers in our town walking around with push chairs containing youngsters stuffing crisps into their mouths while their parents enjoy a fag and a chat to friends at the same time blocking the pavement is irritating to say the least.

I well recall my own schools meals service and we had only two choices, take it or leave it. Mind the food was healthy, all the vegetables being grown in the school garden and the protein came from whatever the local butcher could provide. After a playtime spent running about outside, we were always hungry enough to eat it all up.

Oh I forgot, this was during the Second World War.

We pick up bill for Taylor

From: Peter R Bye, Park Crescent, Addingham.

THE letter from SR Dunkerley (Yorkshire Post, May 5) is absolutely correct. Tony Blair, it seems, offered our custodial system to the International Criminal Court for the future imprisonment of Charles Taylor but it won’t end there. What about Taylor’s human rights?

He will no doubt demand and will be granted prison visits by his friends and family. My understanding is that they live in West Africa.

No doubt there will be a fleet of jumbo jets organised to bring his friends and relations over, obviously at taxpayers’ expense. How about their human rights?

It’s unfair to expect them to fly back the same day, so a few nights in a decent hotel would be the least we should be expected to provide before the aircraft return. After a few trips, they may wish to stay in the UK at which point the full benefit of our benefits system will kick in.

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

THERE are something like 173 countries in the world, most of whom have adequate prisons.

The former Liberian President Charles Taylor has just been found guilty of several war crimes, but why should Britain have to go to all the trouble, hassle and expense of keeping him here in one of our state prisons?

The answer is because Tony Blair, our Prime Minister in 1999, said: “If Taylor is found guilty, we will have him in our country.”

How utterly stupid, but so typical of Blair at the time of this nation’s unnecessary intervention in the civil war in Sierre Leone. Madness personified! As if we haven’t already got enough foreign crooks in our jails.