Porkies to fool us on takeover

The European Union Propaganda Department (EUPD) really excelled itself when it attempted to sell the European Union constitution to the British public in 2005 by placing a shortened version of the constitution in every public library in Britain.

Shortened, in this case, means 12 pages instead of 481. The department thought that a lot of speculation in Britain has lead to many misconceptions and false alarms, for example, it was suggested that:

1. Britain would be forced to join the euro.

2. The European Union would set our taxes.

3. We would lose our budget rebate.

4. We would lose our seat on the Security Council of the UN.

5. We would lose control of our Army.

6. Our foreign policy would be dictated by the European Union.

In fact, none of these things are true!

Our budget rebate is long gone and items 2, 4 and 6 are the subject of serious European Union pressure at this moment. Well we can sit back and have a jolly good laugh about our "misconceptions" now, can't we?

Another little porky: in many areas, notably on asylum, immigration and borders, Britain would retain its existing flexibility to decide whether or not to sign up to European Union law in these areas.

Bob Wydell, Oswestry