YOUR correspondence on Europe may generate heat, but light is sadly lacking, and on both sides. The ?phils? say we will lose millions of jobs, and the ?s(c)eptics? claim that we can live happily ever after like Norway. Both are nonsense. We shall indeed continue to trade with Europe, but the price Norway pays is that they can only trade if they obey every EU regulation to the letter, without having any say in what the regulations are. Luckily for them they are too small for France and Germany to bother fixing the rules against them. Anyone think we are? We in the West Country receive huge sums from the CAP and EU grants. Yes, it is our money, but we only see any of it because the EU insists we get our share. Before the EU it went to the South East and the City when the Tories were in, and the North and Scotland when Labour was. Does anyone believe it wouldn?t again? And UKIP?s ?United Kingdom? name, and their reprehensible habit (shared with the BNP) of parading the Union flag at their political meetings, are a joke in bad taste. If we leave the EU it will be as England and (possibly) Wales. UKIP are nonentities in Scotland, and the Scots could never pass up the chance to take over Britain?s seat in the commission ? which will welcome them with open arms. Goodbye the United Kingdom; next Germany and Japan will argue that the Security Council seat was allocated to the UK and not to England, and is therefore up for grabs . . . There is plenty to put right in the EU, but nothing that would justify retreating into a Little England who will be everyone?s poor relation. Nicholas Waterhouse Meavy House, Meavy
