VIVE LUNION!
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It's all very well for your editorial pages to say that the French are "formidable" and "our allies", but their blockading antics have gone beyond a joke. Their hauliers, fishermen and farmers will have to realise that as a founding member of the European Union, France has a responsibility to encourage and allow free trade.
Unless it lives up to its position as a gateway for the rest of Europe, France will drag the rest of the EU down with it and the anti-European campaigners will be justified.
This will be a waste of the past 40 years of negotiation and legislation, and Britain will again be reduced to an island struggling at the edge of a powerful continent.
So let us hope that the French authorities see sense and stamp out this irresponsible "direct action" before it costs our industry— and most of all our transport industry—everything.
S Bloomfield,
Bristol.