Niall Simpson writes from Dorchester in your issue of 13th October to attack the European Union, describing it as becoming one vast totalitarian state.

Could this be one and the same as the Union freely entered by an ever increasing number of countries across the continent and which has played its part in delivering the longest ever period of peace and prosperity at home in our history ?

We don’t know how lucky we have been.

Trevor Jones

Dorchester County,

District and Town Councillor