On this DAY
1642: Montreal in Canada was founded.
1804: Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France. 1830: Edwin Budding of Gloucestershire signed an agreement for the manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower. The first customer was Regent’s Park Zoo.
1872: Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, nuclear disarmer and Nobel Prize for literature winner, was born in Trelleck, Monmouthshire. 1882: The present Eddystone Lighthouse, the fourth in existence, was opened. 1909: Fred Perry, left, three times Wimbledon men’s singles champion, was born. 1954: The European Convention on Human Rights came into force. 1961: The first London production of The Sound Of Music opened. 1980: Mount St Helens volcano in the American state of Washington erupted, killing 100 people. 1990: A treaty was signed in Bonn introducing economic and monetary union between East and West Germany.
ONE of the inevitable consequences of the coronavirus crisis will be the EU using it as an excuse to expand its power over the remaining 27 EU nations.
Expect to hear talk of a federal EU, EU wide taxation, a fully fledged EU military and of even more nations like impoverished Albania being brought into the fold.
It is a good job that the UK has now finally left this undemocratic, organisation.
We only had to vote in a referendum to get out but I fear that the next country which wishes to depart will have to fight a war against a militarized EU to do so.
Paul Sheehan, Coventry.
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