LIES, DAMNED LIES AND THE BRITAIN IN EUROPE CAMPAIGN

Dateline: 22nd February 2000

The "Britain in Europe" campaign (reports in The Times 2lst/22nd February) has all the characteristics of the 30 year seduction of our nation into the Eurostate - innocuous language, vague concepts, little rational argument and fallacious statistics.

Their grotesque slogan "Out of Europe, out of Work" scarcely describes the fact that the UK attracts more inward investment than France and Germany combined and that unemployment in the UK is less than half that of the Eurozone.

Their attempts to show how many jobs (may) be linked to our membership of the EU certainly includes those provided by French and German companies fleeing Euroland for more rational employment policies in the UK.

Even the title of this absurd organisation demonstrates the 30-year obfuscation and deceit of the Europhile lobby. Like the "heart of Europe" "a community of nations" and other such slogans, "Britain in Europe" is a euphemism and a disguise of their true intent - to kick away the last vestiges of democratic nationhood with the abolition of the Pound, the Bank of England and H M Treasury (and therewith the First Lord of the Treasury - the Prime Minister - and the Chancellor of the Exchequer!)

But, like successive British governments, "Britain in Europe~' has no intention of putting a question to the British people on "Europe' which might elicit the answer "No'