York Press, Letters, 17th September 2008

Brilliant idea

I MUST say I agree with Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who drafted the rejected EU constitution. Britain, he says, should be granted "special status" in the EU to prevent us from 'acting as a brake' on closer integration among our partners.

What a brilliant idea! (And why not start by letting us opt out of the extra £8 billion we will have to contribute to the EU because of the pound's weakness?).

But the former French president seems to need reminding that it wasn't the British who voted against his empire-building constitution. It was the Irish, the Dutch and, sacre blue, his own fellow countrymen.

The scandal is that our Government signed up without even asking us.

Colin Henson, Ullswater, Woodthorpe, York.