Are the EU elections a waste of time and effort?

WE KEEP dancing to Europe’s tune, but what would happen if we refused to take part in the EU elections? It would be paralysed by its own regulations and be unable to conduct business. Could we then be thrown out of the club? Even the election of 73 Brexit Party MEPs would not cause such a catalytic upheaval.

TERRY CURLEY, Brentwood, Essex. IT IS beyond outrageous that the Government is wasting so much money on electing 73 MEPs to a body that, had the will of the people been respected, we would have parted company with already. But it is not altogether surprising given the EU’s well-deserved reputation for waste and financial mismanagement. The cost of the European election is almost the same amount that Eurocrats fritter away every year on transferring their entire corrupt circus for just four days every month from Brussels to Strasbourg and back again.

ROBERT READMAN, Bournemouth, Dorset.

IT’S very kind of the prospective Danish MEP Niels Fuglsang to suggest the UK could save £108 million by not having new elections for MEPs (Letters). I have a better suggestion: leave the EU on a No Deal basis and save most of the £39 billion the Prime Minister has agreed to pay as an exit fee. Mr Fuglsang talks about a ‘mockery of democracy’. However, voters are electing MEPs who just dot the i’s and cross the t’s of legislation agreed by the EU’s real decision-makers, France and Germany.

A. MORGAN, Wymondham, Norfolk.