I RARELY respond to comments on my letters, however having read Glyn Limmer’s completely off-the-wall contribution, I feel a few balancing remarks are in order.

To suggest that the EU was set up by German Nazis in cahoots with French Nazi collaborators is risible. To start with, what became West Germany was thoroughly de-Nazified by the occupying powers after the last war.

In France, Nazi collaborators had a very hard time after the war, being publicly humiliated, paraded through the streets with shaven heads, imprisoned and even executed, they had little influence thereafter.

What became the Coal and Steel Community, the EC and then the EU, came about through discussions initiated by the likes of Monet (France), Adenauer (Germany) and the Benelux countries.

They were all democratically elected politicians. However the real point I was seeking to make was that the Convention on Human Rights was an entirely parallel process, nothing to do with the EU and involving the whole of Europe (40 countries plus) and led among others by Churchill.

He had witnessed at first hand the horrors of two world wars and was determined if he could, to prevent a third.

It remains a fact that between these two twin tracks Europe has had its longest period of peace in its history.

As a final reflection, the likes of your other correspondent might like to reflect on the fact the UK is situated just a few kilometres from Calais, not just a few miles from Long Island and that therefore one way or another Europe will always matter hugely to us.

BOB JOHNSTON, Lib Dem Councillor, Radley, Vale of White Horse District Council