SIR – The French and German governments’ decision to force Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to abandon plans for a referendum on Greece’s bail-out exposes how undemocratic the European Union is, but why is it so difficult for Greece to leave the eurozone, and why if it left would it be so destructive to Europe?
The reason is that the financial speculators who are currently heaping pressure on Greece would then turn their attention to other countries and force them out of it.
It was these financial hatchet men who in 1992 broke our currency and forced Britain out of the European exchange rate mechanism and caused the financial meltdown in 2008.
Taxpayers bailed these people out with a trillion pounds, and now they hold Europe to ransom. These people have never done a day’s work in their lives, they produce nothing, but have the power to break governments, start wars and control every aspect of our lives.
Max Hey, Fairway Grove, Bradford
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