SIR – I am pleased to see Stanley Parr at last acknowledging that the Lisbon Treaty allows us to leave the EU. The reason we are stuck fast in the EU has nothing to do with our dodgy political system, which is rigged and run to ensure the majority of people are ignored if they object to policies that are largely devised in Washington.

Brussels is a problem in several ways but many other EU countries are sick of us and if Washington ever allowed us to leave the EU a big cheer would go up in Europe to speed our exit.

JIM EVANS
Worcester