I HOPE Southampton City Council will think very carefully before embarking on a referendum for fluoridation.

The people have already spoken, and all councils involved have made their position clear.

No one wants it – except a dwindling group of flat earthers, who, without logic or science, still insist mass medication – forcing the same high dose of an unlicensed drug on a 5lb baby and a 30 stone man – is safe and appropriate.

It is, of course, preposterous, and those who are selling it should know better.

JENNIFER GODSCHALL JOHNSON, Upper Clatford.