EU should be honest with citizens over intent

DOCTOR Tony Vickers tells us that Brexit wrecked aspirations for so many people (‘This Tory Government is totally out of touch’, Newbury Weekly News, April 18).

He doesn’t tell us what aspirations, just that Brexit wrecked them.

Seems rather odd to me, that these

“so many” had such weakly held aspirations, that they set themselves such a low bar.

Surely taking the enormously sensible decision to stop wasting billions upon billions of tax payers’ money funding some unelected bureaucrats project for the removal of democracy would not wreck anyone’s aspirations.

Indeed, I suggest it long overdue that the bureaucracy of the EU started being honest with its citizens about its own aspirations.

Namely, that the block will have not only its monetary union, but also the political and fiscal union it intends, and, that its citizens will not be permitted a vote on whether they actually want this.

In many respects, staying within the EU provided more a barrier to achieving aspirations than taking the bold and forward-looking step of regaining self-governance and leaving the project.

Imagine being an MEP, knowing that harbouring any aspiration towards proposing legislation is futile, that you will only ever be able to vote on policies that that the bureaucrats decide you shall be permitted to vote on.

Or, that if you vote the ‘wrong’ way, you’ll just keep getting asked to vote again, or simply be told that you no longer need to vote on the policy, which will be put through anyway. A classic example of this kind of antidemocratic sidelining being when another Tony, one Mr Blair, oh so generously signed us up to the European Constitution without asking if it’s what we wanted.

Did I say the European Constitution? Sorry, I meant of course, the Lisbon Treaty, which is how the bureaucrats had to rename their constitution after it found member states weren’t voting correctly and kept rejecting it. The Tories may well be out of touch. They’re just not as far divorced as the poor citizens of Europe are from those telling them what policies they’re getting, or those who think rejoining the EU will somehow put voters and their unelected decision makers back in touch.

HAMISH McCRACKEN

Adeys Close

Newbury