Letter: Beef crisis: a despicable political ploy

Sir: Is it not time that we in the UK humbly recognised what the rest of the European Union is trying to tell us - that a higher standard of performance in all that we do is required of us if we are to remain members of the Union - and that this can only be achieved by a greater exercise of good manners and good sense?

LEO HAYNES

Northwood, Middlesex