EU vaccine chaos is the proof we needed
DEAR Editor, Your letters column of January 28 was mostly given over to comments about perceived unsatisfactory outcomes of British exit from the European Union.
I assume that they had been written just before the European Union vaccine debacle (and, later the Northern Ireland open/shut border misjudgment) became centre stage, which demonstrated quite clearly the unhappy state of excessive bureaucracy and inaction in the EU from which the UK has thankfully escaped by leaving the organisation.
The European Union is sometimes described as a modern Holy Roman Empire with Frau Merkel sitting in her office in Berlin substituting for Charlemagne enthroned at Aachen.
But the European Union is more Byzantine than Roman with its armies of bureaucrats and officials serving their own needs rather than benefiting the peoples of Europe.
The chaos surrounding the European vaccine programme is a glaring example of the suffocating powers of those inflexible denizens of Brussels and instead of regretting our escape from their clutches and filling your letters page with their moaning, those who still have not come to terms with the people’s vote to leave the EU should, like the rest of us, heave a sigh of relief that we are no longer a member state.
It is pleasing that none of the doommongers’ predicted dire consequences of British escape from the EU have come to pass (or else the BBC would surely have relished letting us know about them) and instead the beneficial effects of the reassertion of British independence are being seen so early in the way Britain has not found itself mired in the European vaccine crisis.
Graham Knight, West Heath, Birmingham