• IN his reply to my July 18 points regarding the undemocratic European Union and late Tony Benn’s arguments, Michael Romberg (We are European and British, July 25) starts by using that old chestnut argument that the British people were too stupid and not able to know what leaving meant three years ago and what they were voting for!

There was plenty of material available for research on the subject and no doubt positions were exaggerated on both sides; but that could be the case in any debate.

He needs to understand that while a large number of people in Camden may have voted to remain, the country as a whole did not. He must respect that or else he is a hypocrite when he talks about democracy.

MEPs have zero real power in the EU organisation. It’s a gravy train. Nigel Farage made that point at the recent MEP “elections”. He should know.

My own experience with my then MEP 20 years back showed me that Brussels is even further away than Westminster should I need to seek a citizen’s assistance from a supposed representative public figure.

In my own case, I could not even get in contact with my then London Labour MEP either by myself or my British Zimbabwean lawyer friend who assisted me with my case when I married a foreign national.

My wife was refused entry by then home secretary, Jack Straw. The EU act of “right to family life” was not recognised, just grand words on a piece of EU paper.

Did Mr Romberg actually watch the Tony Benn video clip and his comments about the lack of democracy in the EU? Now the situation is even worse as the EU wants to tax us to build its own army.

What is the purpose of that as there is already NATO and that is already provoking Russia through its expansion eastward?

I thought the EU, then EEC, was set up as a trading arrangement. Why have an EU army at all when an obedient and passive invasion is easily done through the Schengen agreement?

I accept that the UK is geographically in the European sphere but culturally, linguistically, and economically it is not in Europe.

Maybe if the new Tory PM keeps his word and removes the UK from the tentacles of Brussels, things will become calmer and the United Kingdom’s energy put into positive, peaceful, social improvement and construction.

CLEM ALFORD