DAVID Andrews (You Say, May 12) works in Europe. So have I in my time and I retain strong connections there. However, experience leads me to views very different from his.
With respect, Mr Andrews' economic and historical comparison with America is simply false. The US states developed simultaneously, with a common economy and history.
Britain and European countries, by contrast, have differed for centuries in both respects. Trying to use one as a roadmap for the other is like trying to use a map of Middlesbrough to get to Milton Keynes. Mr Andrews' questions about European prices and holidays clearly show who the real isolationists are in this debate. Britons have to compare prices and exchange currencies all over the world, not just in Europe. The world does not end at Dresden any more than it ends at Dover.
It's no coincidence that sharply higher eurozone inflation caused the euro to fall sharply - again - the day Mr Andrews' letter appeared. That, in a nutshell, is why this country must not get snarled up in that cod currency.
JULIAN THAKE, Worcester.
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