Letter: Mark Pritchard MP told the truth on the EU

Letter: Mark Pritchard, MP for Wrekin and secretary of the Tories' powerful 1922 Committee certainly told the truth on September 20.

What is more, he told it to a leading national broadsheet.

What is even more, he told it about the European Union.

They'll be honouring manifesto pledges next.

He said: "For many Britons the European Union had become an occupying force, setting unfamiliar rules, demanding levies, curbing freedoms, subverting our culture and imposing alien taxes.

"Brussels has become a burdensome yoke, disfiguring Britain's independence and diluting her sovereignty.

"In less than four decades Britain has become enslaved to the Europe – servitude that intrudes and impinges on millions of British lives every day.

"The majority of Britons living today have never had a say on Europe – it is time for the British people to choose their own destiny."

I dread to think what the four pro-unionist Star readers thinks of all this.

It is one thing having a daft old pensioner from Oswestry daring to have an opinion different from their own but an MP, and a Tory MP at that, and on their doorstep, repeating verbatim what I have been saying for 38 years must be a nightmare.

Unfortunately they will find no fault with the MP's view and, if they write at all, will have to resort to the juvenile abuse they give me.

Bob Wydell

Oswestry