I SUPPOSE we should have expected a letter from Christopher Denne (June 13) supporting the Lib Dem MEP Sir Graham Watson as he was and maybe still is a member of an outfit who call themselves the European Movement (Tamar branch).

They apparently think that the rest of the world will only trade with Europe under EU conditions – which may explain the current problems with one of the biggest markets, namely China.

This Europhile group do not actually say they favour a federal, United States of Europe or that we should join the failing Euro on their website, but it does say this, which gives a pretty good idea where their loyalties lie.  

'A politically united Europe is needed to sweep aside the petty tribalism that has historically, at the very least, been an obstacle to progress or, at its worst, has led to bitter conflict and a catastrophic loss of human life. Europe must be united as a region of law, justice and democracy, equipped with the institutions capable of achieving these ends'.

Frankly, I would rather live in a Great Britain that makes its own laws, home and foreign policies, immigration controls and be free to trade with whoever we wish rather than be under a dictatorship from Brussels, if that makes me a Little Englander; then I'm jolly proud of it.

Paul Mercer

Peter Tavy

CHRISTOPHER Denne takes UKIP to task for attacking Sir Graham Watson. We do this because, almost single-handedly, that man has changed the law of this country whereby any of us can now be extradited to another EU country at the wish of a foreign judge, with no arrest warrant being needed, and there is nothing that our legal authorities can do to prevent it.

Sir Graham's brainchild is the European Arrest Warrant, which has already seen hundreds of UK citizens sent overseas to languish untried for months in foreign jails.

Mr Denne then says that we are wrong to want to come out of the single market, and should be proud of our involvement in it. He ignores the fact that the single market is widely regarded as being the most uncompetitive trading bloc in the developed world. Added to which, if it's so wonderful, how does he explain the fact that Switzerland, not a member of the EU, exports four times as much per head of population to the EU than we do?

Those who support our continuing membership of the EU clearly care nothing for democracy. They just love being governed by unelected, unaccountable and unimpeachable anti-Christian bureaucrats in Brussels and they blithely ignore the fact that our Westminster MPs are now little more than cyphers carrying out the EU's diktats.

People like Mr Denne should have more respect for those of us who fight to regain our freedom from this tyranny. We are not 'right wing'. We are simply patriots (common sense people) who are trying to expose the treasonous behaviour of our political leaders over the past fifty years; we just want to see the government of this country returned to Westminster. What on earth is 'right wing' or 'extreme' about that?

Hugh Williams

The Crescent, Crapstone

WE did not help to create the single market, because all the work had been done before we were allowed to join.

De Gaulle of France (who hated us) kept us out for over three years, saying we were not European.

When all the rules that matter, like the agricutlural policy, were in place we were allowed to join, but only after we gave away our fishing grounds and paid the second biggest contribution to the club (we still do). Ted Heath then continued to tell us we would not lose any sovereignty.

The trouble is we are being led by the Liberal Left Wing Appeasement Party where if it is Europe, it must be good and any other opinion is bad.

God help our country.

D P Hunter

Cox Tor Road

Tavistock

CHRISTOPHER Denne has proved the point I made two weeks ago about EU deceivers. Predictably, in his support for Sir Graham Watson and the EU, he has conveniently ignored the things that really disturb so many of us. This is what they do! 

Our payment of £50-million — a day. What we could do for our country with that! That this gives us the benefit of having our elected government overruled by an unelected, humanist, totalitarian government. We can no longer control our borders or even deport terrorists, because we are subservient to the European Human Rights Act. Presumably, Mr Denne is happy about that, but not many of us are.

Mr Denne seems to assume that the correspondents critical of Sir Graham were all UKIP members. We know where the Liberal Democrats (and Labour) stand on the EU, and various moral issues. But, so many of us are also sick and tired of the alternative. David Cameron is pushing us into gay marriage, and fails to rein in the EU. As UKIP stands for many of the old values that once served us so well, their current popularity with those who want righteous government ought to be of no surprise.

Terence Scarborough

Uplands, Tavistock