SUE Doughty’s letter (January 21) is typical of the ‘outers’ in seeing the EU entirely negatively as a burden, not an opportunity.
The EU is the biggest economic area in the world and decisions of immense importance to the future of humanity (the nature of many of which we as yet can’t know) will be taken by Europe in the coming decades.
We can choose to stay in and exert our considerable influence, or opt out and sit impotently on the sidelines: a declining power like we were in the 1950s and 60s.
We would have no means of opposing EU decisions which went against our interests – as they would certainly do if we came out.
We would also very probably soon see the break-up of the UK, as the SNP are waiting for ‘Brexit’ to relaunch their Scottish independence campaign. We would end up as a right-wing little England, a billy-no-mates, toadying up to the USA as our only influential friend left in the world – but they want us to stay in anyway.
DAVID GRIFFITHS
Quarry Road, Headington
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