WHAT HAVE EU LOT GOT AGAINST BRITAIN?

Norman TEBBIT

EMMA BONINO, the European Commissioner for food safety, was at it again last Friday.

Ms Bonino is the lady who as Fisheries Commissioner sank more British fishing boats than all the German Uboats in both world wars.

Having all but destroyed our fishing industry, Ms Bonino is set to do the same to our beef industry.

"It is out of the question to relax the (beef export) embargo," she said. "We are not even thinking of lifting the embargo. And we will not think of it for a long time."

Yet last June, John Major got an agreement from the leaders of all other European Union countries that the ban would be lifted bit by bit starting last November. As I forecast then, they have broken their promise - and Ms Bonino tells us that they intend to keep on doing so.

How can we do business with such a bunch crossing cheats?

IDIOCY

To be fair to our masters in Brussels, the latest idiocy from the Continent does not come from them.

The Council of Europe has issued a Convention For The Protection Of Pet Animals and 11 countries have signed up to it. If it came into force, it would ban the breeding of our Welsh corgi, British bulldog and English cocker spaniel. It seems that every British success is hated in Europe.

They cannot wait to wreck 'the City of London, the world's greatest financial centre, and do all they can to screw up British Airways.

They are on the way to forcing the big auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's out of business in London - so thousands of jobs will go to New York.

Now they have Cruft's Dog Show and our doe breeding industry, which leads the world, in their sights.

Why are these people so determined to destroy anything British? Melvyn Bragg was right to say in Tuesday's Sun: "Britain's got plenty to Bragg about." From pop music to scientific discovery and racing car engines, he gave a list of where Britain is "steaming ahead."

Every engine in the leading racing cars is made in Britain.

Perhaps that is why the Italians have put the world champion Williams racing team on trial over the death of Ayrton Senna in a crash in Italy.

What a bunch of wallies they are, these Euro-loons who say we cannot run our own country or earn our own living without "help" from Brussels.