Was it really worth it? The bickering discontentment of successive British governments with the EU is obviously reaching a climax which has seemingly become untenable.
The wisdom, or rather lack of it, of abandoning the well-established traditional ties with the Commonwealth dominions – Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia – and turn to Europe after the Second World War has proven to be a cultural, political and economic mistake.
A perfidious act when considering those countries so readily came to the aid of ‘the old country’ in 1939, as well as 1914, resulting not only in huge costs to their economies but also the loss of so many of their fine sons for a land few had ever seen.
Too high a price to pay for loyalty that was apparently taken for granted.
George Humphreys Ringsbury Close Purton Swindon
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