SIR - Shortly after David Cameron became Tory leader he famously described UKIP supporters as "fruitcakes and loonies" and he also appealed to Conservatives to "stop banging on about Europe".
His plea seems to have fallen on deaf ears in and around Worcester, judging by the regular flow of anti-European Union letters in your columns.
Nobody suggests the European Union is perfect, any more than successive British governments, Worcester City Council or, indeed, any other organisation.
But the truth is that most of the positive legislative initiatives in the social field over the last 30 years have stemmed from EU legislation - and this is what the eurosceptics cannot or will not come to terms with.
And - lo and behold - 35 years after joining Europe we're still drinking pints and eating bent bananas!
DAVID CANDLER, Labour city councillor.
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