SIR - Europhobes often remind me of the Blackadder character, Baldrick.

While Baldrick had a cunning plan for everything, they see a cunning plan in everything.

According to them the EU is the new USSR. You know, low living standards, people not allowed to leave even for a holiday, only high-ranking leaders allowed cars and a low crime rate because of streets saturated by patrolling policemen and savage sentences for even minor crimes.

A perfect match really.

Jim Greenhalf on the other hand has the EU down as the new Holy Roman Empire (T&A,. Saturday Essay, May 12).

Make your minds up, lads. No wonder UKIP got only just over 1,000 votes in total in the recent local elections.

Eric Firth, Wellington Street, Wilsden