Sir: Mr Douglas Jay's recdtd on the Common Agricultural Policy
(June 15) has stuck in the same groove of cheap food which we gave..up by joining the Common Market. Yet when Mr Callaghan was asked in the Commons debate to name low cost food producers outside Europe he answered that he could not, because they did not exist.
Mr Simmerson (June 8) claims that by being members of the Community we shall see Britain sink into a state of economic and political impotence. But surely this would be the inevitable consequence of leaving the Community and abdicting any influence over its decisions. For, whether we like it or not the Community and countries linked with it account for half of our trade, and decisions taken with them are vital to our own economic wellbeing. As to political influence, what weight would we would carry as against a Community of 250 million people on our own doorstep.
Miss Mew (June 8) complains that, unlike supporters of the European cause, anti-Marketeers lack funds. Is this not a reflection of the weakness of the anti-Market case, whose supporters are not prepared to back it out of their own pockets?
Ernest Wistrich Director The European Movement, la Whitehall Place, London SW!.
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