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Is European Union membership a bad idea for the Potteries?

ONCE again, on TV recently, we were subjected to the unseemly spectacle of a Labour MP Tristram Hunt extolling the virtues of Britain's membership of the European Union.

Perhaps he would like to explain to his constituents how he justifies holding these opinions when the EU has had such a negative effect in North Staffordshire and in particular the Potteries which he purports to represent.

Perhaps he would like to take a stroll around his constituency and count the number of potteries that have closed; their operations now carried on in East European low wage countries.

I would like Tristram to tell us what the benefits are to any Potter, when in a moment of overwhelming philanthropy he, our sturdy supporter of the working man, gifts their jobs to a foreign country.

He may wish to further his popularity by explaining to other workers, such as the Indesit workers from Blythe Bridge, how fortunate they are to live in this workers' paradise. He bleats on about our trade with Europe being affected if we withdrew from the EU, which is a scaremongering tactic used by all those who would rather be ruled by a foreign government than have the courage to recover our independence, so disgracefully surrendered by a Conservative government under the leadership of Edward Heath.

We are too large a market for the Europeans to ignore.

KB GAVIN

Rode Heath

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