SIR - Last week UKIP was affronted by butter in 250 gram packets and the fact that England is missing from some maps published by the European Union. Such trivialities seem to be the extent of UKIP's opposition to everything European so I wonder what Jason Smith and Philip Bird made of yesterday's decision by the European parliament to force mobile phone operators to cut their charges for inter-country calls?
That this could be done is the consequence of the Single European Act (SEA) which was passed into UK law by Mrs Thatcher in 1987 and makes decisions by the European parliament binding on all member states. Without it (and the EU) implementation of the decision in all 26 states would require 325 separate bi-lateral agreements which given competing national interests would have taken for ever.
But because all member of the EU are bound by the SEA, costs for travellers across Europe who wish to use their mobiles to call home after August 1 will be greatly reduced.
It has been obvious for ages that companies have been ripping off their customers and now something has been done but only because the EU has made it possible to order the change at a stroke.
Brian Holmans, Langley Road, Bingley
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