The benefits of the World Trade Organisation
June 6th, 2007
A letter to the Daily Telegraph which was published on 19th June 2007.
Michael Canton (Letters, June 15) denies that Britain’s leaving the EU would harm British industry because we would be able to join the European Economic Area.
Of course, he is right, but much better models are our fellow Anglosphere countries Australia, Canada, New Zealand and America, whose combined trade with the EU is comparable with our own but which, unlike Norway, pay absolutely nothing to the EU for the privilege of trading with it, nor do they have to accept the free movement of EU citizens in their countries.
The Anglosphere countries’ trading arrangements with the EU are secured by their membership of the World Trade organisation, as ours will be when the politicians are finally forced to accept that Britain will be massively better off outside the EU.