Pandering to when we ruled the waves

Dear Sir,

I am heartened that Michael Knowles, p35 in last week's Chronicle partly advocates leaving the EU so that the countries of Eastern Europe can retain their professionals.

Free migration is an aspiration and most people now accept that in this modern world it must be controlled.

It is the method of controlling it that is the issue; fairness, humanitarian considerations and the ability to benefi t the country emigrating to would seem some reasonable guidelines, though I am sure there are others.

He then goes on to attack the bureaucracy that is responsible for devising, implementing and enforcing EU legislation.

Many of our environmental, social and consumer protection laws emanate from the EU and to do trade with it we will need to have similar, if not identical, legislation.

Re-jigging our national laws in the name of sovereignty is just pandering to a time when we ruled the waves and could afford such luxuries.

Yours faithfully,

DR PETER HIRST

Middlewich.