SIR – The four former Supreme Allied Commanders of Nato (Letters, May 29) are at least honest when they say it is in America’s interests for Britain to remain in the European Union.
However, they are effectively asking the British people to disregard our own interests and our sovereign democratic future.
Moreover, they are misguided to believe that the EU will ensure a stable and peaceful Europe. It is clear that many EU bureaucrats are determined to emasculate Nato by creating an EU army, and their expansionist aims risk destabilising the continent.
I can find no good reason for Britain to stay in the EU, and the security it provides is one of the least convincing.
Peter de la Nougerede
Seaford, East Sussex
SIR – The former commanders write that “each of us had ample opportunity to assess the critical importance of British leadership in the EU.”
However, they have drawn the wrong conclusions. Don’t they realise that Britain has to kowtow to the EU?
It is a mistake to confuse military partnerships with the EU bleeding our country dry by making us prop up the majority of the other EU countries.
Nigel Walley
Newcastle, Staffordshire
SIR – The EU’s military record includes the total mishandling of the post-Yugoslav wars and the premature embrace of Ukraine, which so angered Vladimir Putin. It has in no way contributed to our security.
Ian Wylie
Evercreech, Somerset
SIR – The 72nd anniversary of the D-Day landings takes place tomorrow. It has recently been my privilege to discuss the events of that day with a friend who was there.
We have also touched on the EU referendum and his decision to vote to leave. His position is simple: he and his comrades fought to restore freedom to the Continent and to preserve Britain’s sovereignty. His visit to the polling station will, he explained, be an attempt to honour that sacrifice and to restore what they won for us.
The fact that Angela Merkel has threatened us with economic consequences if we leave the EU shows how we have been betrayed by our leaders over the past four decades. Yet again Germany dominates Europe, although this time it is simply because of its economic success. However, I am left wondering what those who gave their lives for Britain would make of a German Chancellor attempting to frighten us into her way of thinking.
As someone who was two years old when the last referendum took place, I am looking forward to joining my 92-year-old friend on June 23 in his attempt to end this shameful, illogical surrender of sovereignty.
Rev Jamie Taylor
Sonning, Berkshire
