Letter: Is EU membership good for GB?
Membership of the EU should be a happy state for GB, so we are told by this government and our MP. But is it?
It occurred to me that the EU is frighteningly similar to an old Soviet Wartburg car, conceived in darkness, designed by bureaucrats, built by bully boy tactics and largely driven by an unwilling public.
Of course design is the essence, the EU as the Wartburg was poorly designed, a single currency based on a collection of disparate economies could never succeed as in a collection of poorly designed ill-fitting parts.
EU Policy for Policy's sake, most are fatally flawed, not least the free movement of labour now creating huge strains on our already compromised economy.
In 2014 restrictions on the entry of Romanian and Bulgarian citizens will under EU law be lifted. Currently those living in both countries have a minimum wage of a paltry 73p/hour compared with our £6.31/hour; the influx of those nationals into our country will be huge.
Many who earn their £6.31/hour will, rather than spend that money in the UK, send it back to families and dependants in their own countries denying our economy of much needed stimulation. Worse, many will benefit from our already massively stretched public services, with little or no contribution.
The EU has again produced policy Soviet style, little thought being given to the dynamics and scant regard for the people. I wonder whether it might have been wiser to harmonise a minimum wage first before coercing its citizens into rushing around Europe. That of course is too obvious.
Mark Jarrold
Ludlow
