Richard Spires (Your Letters, May 10) seems to have got it all wrong when he refers to your "anti-European correspondents".

Yes, there are many of us who want to see Britain out of the European Union, but that doesn't mean we are anti-European.

We do not consider ourselves better than our European neighbours: Of course we can learn from each other, trade with others, and respect each other. It's just that we don't want Britain to be run by a bunch of faceless and unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, whose laws now override those made by our own parliament at Westminster.

I myself currently spend 10 days or so every month in France where I find the ordinary French people some of the most friendly, most helpful and most generous people I have ever had the good fortune to meet. And I can tell you that a lot of them are not at all happy that France is a member of the EU.

If you read his manifesto you will see that one of the reasons why Le Pen got such a huge vote in the first round of their recent presidential election is because one of his main policies is to bring back the franc and to restore France's sovereignty.

It is now widely accepted that the EU is not a free-trade organisation, as we were originally led to believe. It is a wholly political concept, intent on establishing a Federal Europe.

There is every reason to fear a European superpower. You may recall someone else once had that idea, in 1939. Our biggest enemy now is complacency.

Ian Morris, Newtown Road, Malvern.