MR N K Wright of Soudley wrote last week (Review, April 15) of those complaining that the EU was dictatorial: “with regard to the EU being dictatorial, all legislation passed within the EU is subject to ratification by each sovereign state which can modify the said legislation to meet their needs. This is hardly the way that a dictatorship works.”

He also stated “please get the facts right” and, while not supplying any sources to support his own assertions, complained that others did not provide sources to support theirs. 

Well, as stated in the Daily Express (April 16, page 27), here is what was reported when comparing Harold Wilson’s leaflet before the last referendum with Cameron’s of today: “Wilson’s leaflet sought to dismiss anxiety that ‘we would have to obey laws passed by unelected faceless bureaucrats sitting in their headquarters in Brussels.’ ”

That now looks like a creepily accurate prediction of what the European Community has since become.

A Whitehall report quietly slipped out by the government this week acknowledged that Britain has an “obligation to comply” with all EU laws. 

I agree with Mr Wright: it’s always good to get the facts right and also useful to reference your sources when expressing an opinion.

However, below is my opinion without sources, but simply born of logic.

The essence of the in/out arguments (because economics and immigration are simply consequences of the essence) is simply described in two questions.

•Do you want to be a servant of Brussels? 

•Do you want to be able to vote in, and perhaps even more importantly, to vote out, your own law makers and tax takers? 

Your answer to those alternatives should give you a sense of which way to vote in the interests not only of those of us here today, but of our children and grandchildren, in what is probably the most important decision our country has had to make in the last 1,000 years

– Tom Atkinson, Lydney.