SIR – Jason Smith of UKIP (Letters, August 7) told us that we had no need of the European Convention on Human Rights because we enjoy ancient rights and privileges not available to the continentals.
He may or may not be right but many other members of the EU including Germany, Spain, Portugal and former members of ‘the Eastern Bloc’ were all vile dictatorships where human rights counted for nothing.
If it is a condition of membership for every other country, I see no reason for the UK to be exempt just because ‘we’ have a superior legal system which despite Mr Smith’s grim forebodings is unlikely to replaced by the EU’s Corpus Juris in the foreseeable future.
Finally, I would challenge him to mention just one law emanating from ‘Brussels’ which has seriously damaged as opposed to causing inconvenience to our traditional way of life.
B Holmans, Langley Road, Bingley
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