FURTHER to recent correspondence on the EU, as usual Margaret Thatcher put it correctly, if undiplomatically.

Shortly after she left office she declared that, throughout her lifetime, Britain’s problems had come to Europe, and the solutions to those problems had come from the English-speaking world.

The anti-democratic nature of the EU and the dangerous and centralising tendencies of its institutions serve only to ramp up tensions, which is another reason to exit this failed organisation as and when the paying public are given the chance to have their say in a referendum.

COLIN SMITH, Totton.