Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

Dear David Miliband,

Yet again your feeble understanding of geographical boundaries makes you look rather stupid.  To suggest that the EU should include Russia is contentious; to suggest that the EU should include the Middle East and North Africa is absolutely unbelievable.

I seem to remember writing you a letter not so long ago about the fact that Turkey is not in Europe and has little in common with European values, history and attitudes.  Obviously you haven’t checked a map since then, because the very notion that Africa and the Middle East should be inside the European – yes, that’s the EUROPEAN – Union leaves me almost speechless.  To say that enlargement is “our most powerful tool” to promoting stability makes me think that you see expanding the EU thousands of miles outside Europe as a way of helping bring peace to the world and let everyone live in harmony with one another.  Are you out of your mind?!?!  Jesus christ, where do you get these ideas?  Do you honestly think the EU and the Middle East can develop ’shared values’?  Have you not seen the chaos that wildly different cultures living inside the UK is currently fuelling?!?!

And it gets worse.  “[The EU] is not and is not going to become a superstate. But neither is it destined to become a superpower.”  Wrong to the former and wrong to the latter.  It is going to become a superstate and it is going to become the biggest market in the world – which is why I would never want the UK to leave the EU trading area even if we renegotiate our political links to other European nations.

I really am struggling to control my temper so I’m going to stop writing this letter before I explode.  The EU is already stretched very thinly.  If you think that you can bring about world peace by drawing artificial borders around countries, you are living in a dreamworld.  I’m an atheist myself, but god help us all if you remain Foreign Secretary for much longer.

A.Tory