ANATOLE KALETSKY’S article (Comment, 2 September), on the perils that lurk beneath a resilient British economy, raises two supplementary issues that deserve mention.

The first concerns the ever-growing recruitment onto the public sector payroll of staff who do unproductive and socially and economically deleterious work. This burgeoning public expenditure will play its part in crowding out productive private investment, drive up interest rates and create a vast constituency which will have a vested interest in preserving itself by invoking those very employment regulations of which he speaks.

Yet more problematic are the implications for Britain’s relationship with the EU, for it is from the Brussels Commission, over which we have no direct democratic audit, that so much of this employment regulation pours forth. It is