Originally from: Dan Jay
                        
Margot

Why do you condemn the Conservative policy of opposing the enlargement of Europe in the Nice Treaty and their pledge to renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership?
 
We know too well that Labour won that election with an overall majority of 167 seats in the height of the FMD crisis which they should have been dealing
 with instead of a general election. And if you still think that more people agree with Tone than the people who disagree with you then you can't know many people.

Perhaps you would like to comment on this editoiral from Saturday's Western Morning News which I posted yesterday. This newspaper is not politically motivated and it is very respected on the Warmwell Site.

Today, in Ireland, we will see an example of manipulation. If it triumphs it will affect everyone of us here. In June 2001 the Irish people rejected the Nice Treaty. The EU should then have scrapped it and written another. As usual, the same one is on the table today when the Irish will be forced to vote again, and perhaps again and again, until the EU gets the Yes it demands.

The EU calls this democracy, one of the great lies of our time. Democracy means "strength of the people", something the EU detests, like national governments. It claims the Nice Treaty is necessary for enlargement, another lie. Four nations joined the EU in 1994 with no new treaty. The truth is that Nice hands massive new unaccountable power to the EU, to create an inner core of countries dominated by the Franco-German axis, and Brussels.

The EU will become impregnable to protests from individual nations. Nice centralises power behind closed doors, which is what politicians love of course. "Why have to answer to all those peasants out there? We only need them once in five years and if the EU marches on we may never need them again. We'll elect ourselves!" The ten countries wanting to join the EU have shaken off the USSR only to aspire to another, seriously devoid of democracy and accountability. Communists from those countries are campaigning in Ireland for a Yes vote, which proves my point.

Why do they love the EU so much? Look at the ten applicants: seven have an average annual income below £4,700. In Latvia it is £2,500. Ours is £23,000 while across the present EU it is £18,000. Their gross domestic product is about a sixth of ours and that of the whole EU. It is not hard to guess why they all want to join and how it will drain our own wealth.

In Ireland, business and trade union leaders are pushing for a Yes vote without consulting their members and the Irish government has made sure no money is available to support a No vote which only has private advertisements. There is "government" money of course and therefore ten times more posters for Yes than the cash-strapped No group. Stalin lives again.