Churchill misquoted

Tim Hudson in his letter (August 11) challenging an earlier letter by David M Caslaw was unnecessarily rude by referring to David Caslaw’s letter as “misleading drivel”.

Sadly, not an unusual attack by EU fanatics.

He then misuses Winston Churchill’s call for a United States of Europe.

Churchill actually called for this in an article he wrote for the American Evening Post in 1930, not in 1946 as Tim claims.

Tim also ignores what Churchill actually said about a United States of Europe on two separate occasion.

Firstly, he said “But we have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.”

Some years later he said: “If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.”

Tim then goes on to describe the majority vote to leave the EU as a “squeaky difference” compared with the majority vote to remain in the Common Market in 1975.

If he had looked closer at the respective votes he would have found that the vote to remain in the Common Market in 1975 was 17.4million this decreased to 16.1million to remain in the EU in 2016.

However, the vote to leave leapt from the 8.5million that voted to leave in 1975 to 17.4million who voted to leave in 2016.

Forty years of experiencing the EU had some impact I think.

When people voted to stay in the Common Market in 1975 and I was one, we voted for a trading block.

Look what we have ended up with.

It is a state dedicated to wiping out national sovereignty. Why else would the EU have its own MPs in its own parliament, its own anthem, its own flag, its own courts and its own presidents, about five I think, and is attempting to form its own army.

Tim makes reference to the leave campaign’s “big bus with big porky”.

No mention of the war and genocide in Europe and collapse of the UK economy forecast by the remainers in their discredited project fear.

Misleading? I think Tim is. Alan Wright