IN your leader (LET, April 29) you state "MPs would do well to remember it was the British public who voted in a referendum to join Europe."

What you omitted to say is that we were cheated.

People voted to join a European Economic Community.

Then, there was no talk of a single currency and, as has happened, the emasculation of our judiciary and our Parliament to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and to European courts.

The weapons being used against us today are not bullets, tanks, aircraft and bombs, but treaties, directives, taxes and regulations.

The threat to our sovereignty is no less today than in the 1930s.

If our great country does not wake up today, it will not exist tomorrow.

D BULLEN, Albany Road, Blackburn.

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