YOU printed five letters recently deploring, in various ways, the ‘out’ vote on the EU, and two applauding it.

That may well have reflected the balance of letters that you received, but the difference in tone between the two was very striking, two of the ‘deplore’ letters claimed that out voters were ‘ill-informed’ and have produced a ‘nightmare’ situation, especially for the young.

On the contrary, those who took the trouble to fully inform themselves about the reality of the present EU would certainly have voted ‘out’: it is, as a matter of fact, not of mere opinion, undemocratic in its structure and decision-making.

It is inefficient in the way it spends and monitors the use of its money.

It has embarked on a monetary experiment (the Euro) which is fundamentally flawed and will inevitably fail unless a uniform taxation and interest rate system is applied across the whole EU, which won’t happen because it means the final surrender of the last vestige of the sovereignty of each member state, and the 27 electorates just will not accept that.

I thought long and hard about my vote: I searched for information quite independently of the stuff put out by either side and I looked back on my own experience of working in several member states.

My vote and that of 17 million others has, among other benefits, saved the young people of today from being damaged by the inevitably messy decline of the EU in its present form, if not actual collapse.

And the ‘out’ vote in no way affects our response to refugees, or to people who want to work in the UK, as they did in great numbers, and to our mutual benefit, before we joined.

Chris Arnison

Rodborough