French lessons
From Lord Tebbit Sir: Peter Oborne (Politics, 21 May) finds it curious that British and French opponents of the European constitution find precisely opposite faults in what it would impose upon their countries.
As he correctly observes, the French see it as the imposition of Thatcherism on France while the British see it as the imposition of bureaucratic corporatism on Britain. Clearly they cannot both be right, but that does not render their shared opposition to the constitution illogical, contrary or ill founded.
It is the imposition of decrees that they cannot challenge by a foreign government that they can neither elect, dismiss nor change to which British and most French opponents object.
French and British alike wish to govern their own countries and neither to govern nor be governed by each other or by unelected foreign masters in Belgium.
Tebbit
London SW1
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