David Cameron has worked hard, but like many prime ministers before him, thought only of what Britain can get, not about what is also good for our neighbours in Europe. It is self-centred, myopic and in the long term a disaster, as other countries decide they too, by looking inwards, will gain short-term benefit. I was ashamed as I watched the nit-picking detail the poor man went through. I now believe that Europeans, as I consider myself to be, will be better off with Britain out. We have stopped the concept of Schuman and Monnet, with the support of Churchill, from coming to fruition, though it has provided peace and democracy to many who had trauma and dictatorship. So I will campaign for Europe, but by voting for the UK to leave, hoping that without us they can have an “ever closer union”.
Peter Downey
Bath
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