LETTER: De Bernières plays a strange mandolin tune about Brexit
The reason Louis de Bernières gives for voting to leave the EU is both revealing and confusing. There is indeed anger about EU fishing fleets in UK waters (not illegal though) but does the UK not enjoy an unsurpassed access to the largest market in the world just across the channel? I agree though that there has been a wariness of a possible resurgence of German influence in Europe, but the author knows very well it was precisely because of this that Jean Monnet and others decided to form the Coal and Steel and Iron Communities that led to the common market and the EU.
De Bernières’s views on migration are mystifying; why choose to focus on Eastern Europeans when there are many areas in the UK predominately occupied by people of Asian origin? Lord Andrew Adonis, trade secretary under Tony Blair, recently acknowledged that lies were still being told about migration: the excessive levels were not due to workers coming from the EU, the problem was of non-EU origin. Perhaps De Be...
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