Leaving the EU is the Catholic thing to do
SIR – Fr Ashley Beck (Letter, September 9) remarks on the “negative” approach of Catholic Leave advocates, and the dearth of specifically Catholic arguments for quitting the EU, enabling “many Catholics to ignore the selfishness and outright racism of the campaigners they supported”.
Speaking personally, I have battled against racism since my teenage years and would never support anyone who espoused racist views; like many other Leave supporters, religious and non-religious, it has always deeply concerned me that our historic ties to the Commonwealth, which included heroic sacrifice in two world wars, were jettisoned in order to belong to what has been described as a “rich white man’s club”. Indeed, it was a condition of membership that the Commonwealth be sacrificed, and as a consequence, Commonwealth citizens were definitely put “at the back of the queue” regarding immigration.
