TO hear people like Boris Johnson making comparisons between the partnership of nations that is the EU and the evil designs of Hitler brings the Referendum debate to a new low.
The EU was brought into being by people who wanted to be sure that the European wars of the 20th century would never be repeated.
Over the years it has grown to include a host of countries that have been transformed from dictatorships to democracies, and that embrace British ideas of freedom.
We live in an uncertain, dangerous and fast-changing world. Its problems cannot be solved by seeking isolation but by nations working together with common purpose.
To turn our backs on the EU, which Britain has done so much to shape, would be an act of enormous folly.
Simon Lepori
Stretford
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