MANY words have been written and much hot air expended on the subject of the EU referendum.

Surely it could, and should be encapsulated as follows: 1. If you are content for Britain to remain a 1/28th, at present, part of a superstate called Europe, controlled by unelected bureaucrats, then vote to remain.

2. If you would prefer that Britain should become once again an independent sovereign state with a democracy and rule of law, hard fought for over hundreds of years, and answerable only to its electorate, vote leave.

Whichever route is taken there will be change, but surely it is inconceivable that after so many centuries of practice we would be unable to manage perfectly adequately, in our usual phlegmatic and pragmatic way, without the overwhelming and illthought- out overrule by (so very, very recently fledged) “Aunty Europe”.

MRS V. WHEELER

Bradley Road Nuffield