'Archbishop is misinformed', Lynn News Letters

In a secular intervention he said, “The EU has been the greatest dream realised for human beings since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It has brought peace, prosperity, compassion for the poor and weak, purpose for the aspirational and hope for all its people”.

A political response to the Archbishop’s dalliances with the EU is his ongoing misinformation on the subject. There are millions of unemployed people in Italy, Spain, Greece and parts of Southern Europe who would scoff at his naivety. Near to home fishermen in East Anglia would likewise pour scorn. To equate the Treaty of Rome with the Roman Empire is ludicrous! The end of Rome’s influence in 410AD and the fall of the Roman Empire in 476AD triggered the Dark Ages, engendering centuries of civil unrest with cultural and economic decline.

For more than 500 years the Roman Empire’s influence on western civilisation was profound in its contributions to virtually every aspect of western culture. It was responsible for developments in medicine, law, religion and government. It had a disciplined army and a comprehensive civil administration with control over public finances. Contrast this with the numerous failed policies of the EU such as a struggling Euro, single market, customs union, agriculture, fisheries, European Courts and a wilderness of uncontrolled bureaucracy.

Didn’t Justin Welby consider the same anti-democratic Brussels which has inflamed extremism and violence by imposing mass immigration on millions of unwilling people with the resultant disruption on host nations? No. This would go against his mantra of diversity.

David Fleming

Downham