SIR – With reference to Harriett Baldwin’s guest column (Worcester News, June 14) can I point out some fallacies in her comments.
She wrote that “last year a referendum lock was introduced which will trigger a referendum if the UK is reuired to give up any sovereignity at all to the EU”.
The referendum lock is only activated if and when the Prime Minister decides it is appropriate and the promise is not worth the paper it is written on.
She says our businesses would not have access to the common market if we left the EU, yet we buy far more from the EU than we sell to them so the EU would be very happy to continue to trade with us. Her policy is for deeper political and economic integration of the eurozone but this will lead inevitably to the countries outside of the eurozone being sidelined, so what is the point of being in the EU?
Being a UKIP supporter my comments might be considered biased but her Conservative colleague Daniel Hannan [MEP for South East England] has just said the EU makes its member nations poorer, less democratic and less free.
He further points out that the EU’s share of world trade has now slipped below that of the Commonwealth (let alone other fast developing parts of the world ) and this destroys the premise on which we joined the EU.
Leave the EU now.
MARK STARR
Leigh Sinto
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