UK should use £60 billion itself

I see that MEP Phillip-Bushill Mathews has progressed to writing comedy.

One of your readers asked for a political party that believed in constructive engagement with our European Union partners while promoting EU reform.

"There already is such a party and I am proud to represent it in the European Parliament - it is called the Conservative Party."

If I was a Conservative, especially one closely involved with the EU, I would keep my head down.

There is no such thing as constructive engagement in Brussels - they tell us what to do and we do it.

Reform is meaningless word in the EU. The CAP - the worst agricultural policy in the western world - has been screaming for reform for 30 years

There has been none and its mind-boggling incompetence has been set in stone until 2013 - ring-fenced from any proposed changes by Europe's Parliament. It was the Conservatives who took us into this nightmare.

There is no Anglo-Saxon input allowed into the EU except our language and doesn't that stick in their craw and, of course, the pound sterling at the rate of £60 billion per annum, twice the amount of our defence budget.

A disgracefully unjust amount agreed to by naive politicians of both parties. I look at second class, dilapidated Britain and think how it could be improved with that annual £60 billion instead of subsidising our European partners with it.

Bob Wydell, Oswestry