Letters

摘要

Your leader on the "reckless gamble" Britain would take if it quit the European Union listed some home truths ("Goodbye Europe", December 8th). Even so, you could not resist embracing outdated Anglo-Saxon myths of liberal, free-trade Britain versus statist, protectionist continentals, myths which continue to delude too many in Britain into believing that a free-trade area without pooling of sovereignty is possible. The Macmillan government abandoned this delusion in 1961 and the evolution of world power and trade since then has done nothing to alter the ineluctable logic that the United Kingdom must be part of the eu if it aspires to have any worthwhile influence.