WINSTON Churchill was most definitely not an advocate of Britain becoming part of a Federated European State.
Addressing the University of Zurich on September 19, 1946, he made it clear that while he believed that a federation of continental European states could be beneficial – he also believed that Britain’s future rested with another ‘natural grouping’ – the British Commonwealth of Nations.
The great man was convinced that Britain could never be a member of a Federated Europe because “we have our own dreams and our own tasks. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are interested and associated – but not absorbed”.
He must be spinning in his grave at the way in which his beloved Mother of Parliaments has been emasculated by a bunch of unelected commissioners in a foreign country whose diktats take precedence over our own laws and judges (most of whom have never held a senior judicial post in their own country) who overturn decisions made by the most senior members of our own judiciary.
It is not Brexit campaigners who have distorted Churchill’s words to serve their own ends.
ROBERT READMAN
Norwich Avenue West, Bournemouth
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