Sir: Access to the twelve-mile fishing limit and access to
our territorial waters, and indeed to our very shores, will not only make vast inroads in our harvest of fish food and increase prices, and reduce our underwater acreage, of growing importance to the food supply of Great Britain, diminish and ultimately destroy the livelihood of multitudes, permit of the easier illegal entry of more and more undesirable aliens, diseases and drugs, but what is far, far worse, effect inroads into our natural defences and cause many to abstrain from voting for any political party. The inferences are that not enough members of the House 3f Commons had sufficient insight of the extent of public alarm, or of the indirect consequences and that the EEC continentals intended all along to make inroads into the sea barrier which has always stood us in good stead throughout the centuries, and that the British people could be bamboozled. We have not joined this alliance of unreliables and historic enemies, yet. These nations have yet to prove their reliability. Make no mistake 'treaties last so long as they please both parties," and how many fish food producing acres these continental nations imagined we would share with them, when measured for twelve miles round the circumference of Great Britain, is a simply fantastic amount.
This is not likely to be 1667 repeating itself, and my guess is that after second thoughts, that all the portents now indicate no entry. E. A. F. Fenwick Waren House, Waren Mill, Belford, Northumberland
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