• MICHAEL Romberg’s claim that leavers did not know what leave meant is an insult to the millions who voted to leave, (We are European and British, July 25).

It was to secure a deal with the EU if possible or else leave without a deal; this was made clear by the fact that we were leaving the single market and customs union.

His argument that the vote to leave was provisional is utter nonsense and totally undemocratic. The only problem is that we have had a remainer establishment which took no-deal off the table, meaning that we would get a bad deal.

However Mr Romberg’s extraordinary claim that the EU is democratic is risible. The EU parliament is a fig leaf to pretend that it is a democratic system, it is true that the commission was elected by the parliament, though Mr Romberg did not mention that this was the first time that this has happened, but a president and the rest of the commission, who are a cabinet, should be elected across Europe with different candidates and views rather than rubber-stamped by politicians.

The idea the current EU system is more democratic than what happened in the UK last week is absurd, as the current government will have to go to the polls unlike Ursula Von Der Leyen and the rest of the commission. The only reason they will not permit an election is that the majority of people in Europe do not want a federal Europe and it would be rejected in a poll.

We have a European constitution that was rejected in France and Holland, but imported anyway. Also there have been referendums where people were made to vote again because they “voted the wrong way”. Hardly democratic.

The EU is far from a great project, an undemocratic, corrupt entity. Any organisation that tries to stop you leaving is not one I wish to be a member of.

We can work together, which I am in favour of, without having a federal Europe. I am also in favour of people coming here to live, work etc. However no controls at all on immigration make it harder to handle numbers.

Let us have a commonwealth of Europe instead of outdated, redundant, federalism.

PAUL BONNY
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