RICHARD Denton-White’s letter is a piece of propaganda itself.

Nowhere in his criticism of the media does he acknowledge that the BBC is strongly pro-EU, which it should not be, given the source of its funding. He also overlooks the Guardian, the Mirror and the Independent.

There are also the powerful propaganda machines of the Labour Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats.

But let me explain Euro-scepticism to Mr Denton-White, since he clearly does not understand it. I am pro-Europe. I am pro-free trade. But I am anti-EU.

Here in Britain, we live in a democracy.

The majority of the citizens of this democracy want Britain to be able to control its borders.

They want the right to send foreign criminals back home. They want the right to decide who should qualify for benefits.

They want the right to decide on their own currency, and thank God they did, given what Europe is enduring right now.

They want the right to decide what shape bananas should be, how businesses should behave, what banks should be allowed to do, how food should be labelled, what sizes milk should be sold in.

Do we want to kick all the Polish out of Britain? Absolutely not. What we do want, though, is the right to decide who should come here in the future, since many of those arriving on our shores do not have the same strong work ethic or desire to integrate that the Polish and others do.

We certainly don’t want a foreign body to dictate that we should pay benefits to those promoting terrorism against our subjects, or imposing unnecessary legislation such as the so-called Human Rights Act, which does nothing to protect the innocent but allows terrorists to abuse our laws with impunity.

People haven’t been tortured in Britain for centuries, but the left tells us that if we lose the HRA, gallows will spring up in every village square within seconds.

Many countries look to Britain as a model of a fair society, and build their own systems of government around British laws.

The idea that we need to be told how to behave by a group of expensive bureaucrats is quite simply laughable.

So, Mr Denton-White, this is the reason for my anti-EU stance. I believe in democracy. It really is as simple as that.

James Young Millspring, Friar Waddon Road Upwey