Please put me down as sceptic.  I am certainly not anti-Europe but I cannot be described a Eurofile under your definition.

Thank you.

Dear Ms Harpham,

Many thanks for your e-mail of last Thursday. before I can reclassify you as a sceptic, I need to be sure that we are agreed on what the word means. I therefore invite you comment on the following questions:

1) If elected or re-elected to Parliament, would you oppose our joining the Eurozone even if joining were to be recommended by the Party leadership?

2) If elected or re-elected to Parliament and required to choose between accepting the supremacy of European Union law in this country and leaving the European Union, would you vote for British withdrawal?

Sean Gabb
Candidlist Webmaster

I don't mean to be pedantic but what exactly do you mean by joining the Eurozone ie full political and economic integration and loss of our individual status and also when you ask about law do you mean every law?

Barbara Harpham

Dear Ms Harpham,

In answer to your questions, joining the Eurozone is necessarily preceded by signing up to full economic and monetary union - that is, in having our interest and exchange rates decided by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, and in consenting to further deepenings of tax and regulatory harmonisation.

As for the supremacy of our own law, I mean that the Queen in Parliament remains the sovereign lawgiver for this country, and that we be subject to foreign jurisdictions only to the extent that this sovereign lawgiver explicitly and constitutionally agrees.

Yours sincerely,

Sean Gabb
Candidlist Webmaster

Put me down as sceptic.  Nice talking to you!

Barbara Harpham