Don’t come dine with me

I WOULD like to continue the culinary metaphor of former top civil servant Sir Martin Donnelly, who compared leaving the EU to exchanging a three- course meal for a packet of crisps.

In order to gain access to this slap-up dinner, you need to go to a restaurant that is so exclusive, you even have to pay to enter.

Once inside, you realise you will continue to pay significantly more than the other diners.

When you decide that instead of the three- course meal on offer, you’d prefer to go a la carte, you are told you have to order the same as everyone else.

Then you are told the other diners have the right to move onto your table. Even though it is getting ever more crowded and some undesirable characters have sat down, you can’t refuse them.

You take a vote, and a majority on your table decide they want to leave the restaurant. You find yourself outside with just a packet of crisps, but you are happy because you’ve been able to choose your own flavour. ENID HAMBLETT, Appleton, Cheshire.