Supporting the EU is treason

Mr Bushill-Matthews MEP disagreed with me over the Working Time Directive being responsible for the proposed downgrading of paediatric services at the Princess Royal in Telford.

I got my information from the author of the report that proposed the downgrading of the service.

I am a little surprised to see an MEP from a supposedly euro-sceptic party peddling the myth that the EU cannot impose legislation on us.

The EU has several "areas of competency" where they are able to issue directives that the British government is compelled to obey.

Ironically, on the day that Mr Bushill-Matthews's letter appeared, I received an e-mail regarding the EU banning our pleasure boats from using red diesel.

Recently I read that the government was trying to convince the EU that forcing UK motorists to use their lights at all times would result in the deaths of more motorcyclists because the lights on motorcycles would no longer stand out. The government is unable to veto this directive, which will lead to an increase in deaths.

Finally, while the EU may not have specifically dictated the merger of the RSH and PRH, they are the ultimate cause of it. The EU imposed regional government on England and the regionalisation of the NHS, fire service and other services is simply a case of the government complying with the EU's rather convenient regionalisation project.

It is an undeniable fact that the EU deliberately allocates funding through regional quangos to force member states to comply with their regionalisation project. Replacing national identities with regional ones is a prerequisite to establishing a federal superstate.

Supporting the EU is supporting the abolition of our country and tantamount to treason.

Stuart Parr, Telford