I HAVE followed the recent correspondence in your paper with great interest, and Christopher Denne seems to have sparked some considerable controversy by asserting that the UK has not relinquished its sovereignty to the EU. He also advocates getting young people involved, and I heartily endorse that view.
As the UKIP MEP for the South West, I regularly talk to groups of schoolchildren, particularly in the Sixth Form environment, and when presented with facts and information, they are invariably interested to an extremely high degree.
The fascinating outcome of these exchanges is that when they proceed to a vote on whether or not the UK should remain in the EU, the schoolchildren invariably vote ?No?, thus reflecting the views of their parents, as shown in the many opinion polls on the subject.
The problem for this country is to get the adults correctly informed about the EU in the face of all three major parties being in favour, and the BBC acting as a government propaganda tool. The EU propaganda budget is 250-million euros per annum, and so any efforts we make are tiny in comparison, but the truth must and will be revealed, and the impending EU Constitution will force a full examination of all aspects of our membership of the EU.
Without any doubt, this issue is the hugely important end-game of almost 40 years of deceit and concealment by successive governments in this country, and the government must be forced to grant a referendum, as promised by one T Blair in his 1997 book, New Britain: My vision of a young country: ?Of course, if there are further steps to EU integration, the people should have their say, at a general election or a referendum.?
The young people of this young country will surely expect that promise to be kept.
Graham Booth MEP