From Mrs S. Donaldson
Sir: During the past week it has been reported in the press that Intervention Beef, because of the need of ever-more storage space, is being held in refrigerated ships anchored off shore "which are out of commission owing to changing patterns of UK trade." This together with some food shortages, mainly due to CAP manipulations, are ominous signs of a hungry and hazardous future for this country if we remain inside the EEC. In the course of time, sooner than expected it seems, our idle merchant fleet would dwindle and eventually disappear, and so would not For any country to limit its sources of food supplies is unwise; for the UK, which can only feed 50 per cent of its population from its own agriculture, to limit its future supplies to those foodexporting countries in the EEC (France. Eire, Holland — the former two countries not having been notably friendly towards us in the past) would be an act of extreme folly. In those circumstances sooner or later we might have to face a choice of submission to blackmail or starvation.
S. Donaldson 2 Lytchet Road, Bromley, Kent
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