Dear Sir,
Thank you for including the article on the arguments for and against the European Union (EU) in your April edition.
However, the article fails to mention the foundation document for the establishment of the EU, namely, the Treaty of Rome which came into effect on 1 January, 1958. This treaty clearly lays down the ultimate objective of the EU – political union of member states. The treaties of Maastricht and Lisbon have substantiated this objective. If the UK remains in the EU it will lose its sovereignty as a nation state and diminish the democracy for which it fought two world wars.
The article also fails to mention that when Edward Heath was Prime Minister and signed up to the EU in 1973, he led the public to believe that it was simply an economic union. Heath deliberately failed to take the advice of the then Attorney General to make known that the Treaty of Rome had as its objective political union. It was on the basis of this deception that the 1975 referendum was conducted.
Sadly, deception and deviousness have been features of successive governments.
It will be clear that I am writing in support of Vote Leave.
Yours faithfully,
