National security

Saboteurs are doing us down, says FREDERICK FORSYTH

At the moment neither is the case. Stupid and mendacious politicians (both parties) signed away our sovereignty years ago. We can parade our tourist entrancing pageantry till we are blue in the face – pageantry is not sovereignty so long as the governmental and legal supremacy is vested in Brussels. To prosper we must trade and trade and trade.

We are a small group of islands with a huge population but minuscule raw materials. We trade or we plunge into Third World poverty. Yet we have no one-to-one free-trade treaty with USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, India, Brazil – to name just the giants. Why? We are forbidden to trade except within EU trade treaties.

Security depends on Army, Navy, Air Force, Special Forces, MI6, MI5, GCHQ and the very intimate “special relationships” we have built up over the years with scores of friendly nations on all five continents.