Pro-Market
Sir: As a very ordinary British senior citizen who has lived his life through the era of so-called cheap food (ac companied by incentive-killing, nearpenal taxation!) may I make a few brief comments on your extraordinary leader ' A Cheap Food League? which appears in your issue of July 14.
You speak of getting "the country back to its right and proper historical track." What an incredible statement in the context of rapidly changing world conditions governing the supply and demand of basic foods. The increasing economic and industrial strength of the poorer nations of the world is one good reason why the policy of 'cheap food for the British' is gone for ever. Even if an alternative Government introduces massive subsidies to peg the price of food, it does not reduce the real cost to the taxpaying citizen. The Spectator's anti-EEC policy seems to blinker editorial writing. It leads it into making emotive prognostications such as the mischievous one that food taxes here are a certainty now. After reading the article one is left with the conviction that what you advocate for the British is a withdrawal into its little castle and the drawbridge drawn up behind it! Despite your protestation that it is not, it most certainly is defeatism leading to economic disaster.
G. Haydn Jones 35 Beatty Avenue, Roath Park, Cardiff
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