Proud people (From Swindon Advertiser)

Proud people

10:02am Wednesday 25th January 2006 in Letters

EVEN the shortest visit to Norway will ram home the pride the people have in their nation.

The flag flies everywhere, every day, not just on commercial and government buildings but even private homes, be it in a major town or a hut on a mountainside. It demonstrates the kind of pride that Gordon Brown wants to rebuild.

But Norway is a non-EU country. Its people have not had this insidious organisation dismantle its structure piece by piece until almost nothing is left. They have not had the PC loonies screaming like banshees every time someone has said "I'm Norwegian" as we British (or worse, English) have.

Much as I would love to see a revival of Britishness, I fear Mr Brown has the chance of a snowball in a furnace so long as we remain an EU puppet state.

G SCOTT Swindon