Letter: Worcester News (not one of mine)

Euro MP moves the goalposts once again

SIR - Philip Bushill-Matthews (Letters. August 9) once again moves the goal posts on his claim about the EU and peace. His original letter said that the EU had brought peace to Europe over the last 50 years.

I pointed out that this was wrong - several countries in Europe had endured foreign occupation and invasion in that time and in one good example, the Yugoslav civil war, the EU had actually worsened the situation because it had shown partiality and sat on its hands at crucial times so causing unnecessary death and destruction.

He next claimed that what he meant was that the EU ensured that peace reigned within the EU but I pointed out that the one peace making effort the EU had sponsored within the EU e.g Cyprus had utterly failed and the EU had been humiliated. So now he switches again and says that various east European countries voted to join the EU. That is true but is not relevant to his original claim. One of the main reasons they voted to join was that it gave their citizens freedom to travel and come here to work.

Turning to his claim on the EU Constitution, he accepts that 10 countries have not approved the Constitution but then states this does not stop elements of the Constitution being salvaged and implemented. T

This is not democracy - as he claims - because no one knows which parts of the Constitution ensured its defeat and if this is not known, how dare EU politicians and bureaucrats try to implement parts of the defunct Constitution without first finding out if they have our support by a referendum.

One has to wonder whether some MEPs actually prefer not to know what their electorate think.

MARK STARR,

Leigh Sinton