SIR – Steve Davis (Worcester News, March 1) was in a hole, and now graces us with his inability to stop digging.

On February 15, he wrote in a letter to the Worcester News that Norway and Switzerland have “no problems” trading as non-members with the EU.

I wrote to the Worcester News five days later stating the very simple facts of the matter, the enormous disadvantages which, in reality, they experience.

He calls this “bluster”, a description which is far more accurate when applied to the rest of his own letter, one, needless to say, which makes no attempt to respond to the points which so clearly damaged his earlier claims.

He then has the nerve to accuse me of a failure “to see the bigger picture”, a characteristic much more widely, and accurately, ascribed to UKIPians (as in, for instance, knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing).

For me, this picture is that the EU, inherently and by its very nature, is a noble cause.

For sure, it’s a highly imperfect and somewhat flawed organisation. But so are (and no offence intended) our national Government, the county council, the city council and our parish ones; and they also cost loads!

Would Mr Davis wish to wash his hands of these, too?

The truth, of course, is that governance in a democracy isn’t easy or simple.

Someone once said that “it’s much easier to be critical than to be correct” – (negatively) to destroy rather than (positively) to build.

DAVID BARLOW Worcester