SIR – Why do we continue to put up with the great, unelected dictatorship of the EU, which dominates Europe in ways beyond the wildest dreams of Napoleon Bonaparte or Adolf Hitler without all their military powers?

Democratic input has been replaced by bureaucratic bullying, bribery and corruption, using our taxes, with any sign of dissent – eg the ‘no’ vote in Ireland on the Lisbon Treaty – crushed into submission by the match re-run with goalposts moved to obtain the desired result!

Political leaders of Eurozone crisis states Italy and Greece are removed and replaced – without an election – by EU ‘technocrats’, just as in the Second World War Nazi invasion of both countries. Little wonder that one Italian newspaper – Il Giornale – (owned by a Mr Berlusconi) recently had a page one headline “EU the Fourth Reich”

Our political leaders are of course part of the same conspiracy, with every manifesto promise of a referendum either reneged on immediately after the election, or the timescale so vague as to be meaningless.

The EU in general, the Eurozone in particular, is like a sinking ship, with the UK trapped below decks and few lifeboats left, but who will save us? Certainly not Labour, Conservatives or the Lib Dems.

D S Boyes, Rodley Lane, Leeds