Why trust them now?

WHAT a shower! Would you really want to take advice on Britain’s best interests from the big business leaders who signed Downing Street’s letter warning against leaving the EU?

Leave aside that more than a dozen of the 36 (who pocketed £181million between them last year!) are not even British.

Forget that most of the rest are a motley crew of slippery PR men, Cameron cronies and avaricious bankers, with a smattering of chancers who feathered their nests by selling UK firms to foreigners.

Isn’t there one damning factor that unites them with all the most vociferous champions of our EU membership, including the Guardian, the Financial Times and the Economist? Almost to a man and woman, didn’t they zealously urge Britain to join the catastrophic euro, which has spread misery and mass unemployment from the Atlantic coast of Spain to the Aegean shores of Greece?

Thank God, this country didn’t listen to them then. Why should we now? LONG suspected, at last the truth is out. Animals sold as meat are routinely given genetically modified feed, without the knowledge of consumers. Opinions may differ over this paper’s long campaign against ‘Frankenfoods’, whose safety we believe has yet to be fully established. What nobody, surely, can dispute is that when we’re offered GM-reared foods, we should be told.