WITHOUT a hint of irony Cllr Bruce Hogan tells us  that ‘while Spain, Portugal and Greece remain part of the EU, the continuation of democratic rule is guaranteed.’ (Letters, May 25).

Try telling that to an unemployed Greek where youth unemployment recently hit 60 per cent.

We can forgive Mr Hogan over-looking Jean Monet, the ‘founding father’ of the EU, whose rejection of the idea of sovereign nations and wish for a single European state was, and is, despite the untold damage done by the Euro, the over-riding objective of the Europhiles: a covert, anti-democratic objective, we must never forget, which is to be achieved by stealth.

Mr Hogan tells us that ‘his vote (to stay in the EU) will be determined by history.’ History shows us that power corrupts; and only when we choose, as Pitt the Younger chose when faced with Napoleon’s corrupted ambitions to ‘unify’ Europe, to resist do we light a beacon for democracy.

‘England has saved herself by her exertions,’ Pitt said, ‘and will, I trust, save Europe by her example’.

And if, as Mr Hogan suggests, ‘Britain is as important for the future of Europe as Europe is for the future of Britain’ it’s only because, as Winston Churchill said, ‘We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.’

On June 23 it behoves us, once again, to exert ourselves and Vote Leave; and, in so doing, pursue our own dream and save, by our example, democracy in Europe.

It will take courage, the greatest virtue, but I believe we have it in us.

Rather than share his view of history, Mr Hogan would be better employed explaining why, under his Labour Party’s government, this once great country of ours was turned into a low wage sweat-shop for the poor and a tax-free bolt hole for the plutocrats.

– John Muir, Newnham.