Juncker’s federalist dreams only serve to strengthen the case for Brexit

sir – We should be grateful to Jeanclaude Juncker (“A United States of Europe”, report, September 14). He has confirmed how right we were to vote to leave the EU.

His vision of a Europe in which majority voting determines tax and foreign policy, overseen by an all-powerful president, is complete anathema to all but the most zealous Europhiles in Britain.

Not only will we be spared the task of resisting this folly, but his vision of an EU super-state is bound to end in tears as other nations rise up against this undemocratic force.

Those who do not share Mr Juncker’s dangerous vision need to support the Prime Minister or stand accused of being complicit in a conspiracy to surrender our national sovereignty. Sir Gerald Howarth

Chairman, Conservative Way Forward London SW1

sir – It has been obvious for many years that Europe is heading towards a “united states”. Such a union would be a wonderful thing if only it had been built on firm foundations.

The US works because it has had efficient checks and balances from the very beginning. However, European countries were unwilling to give up sovereignty and founded a toothless parliament with a powerful, unelected bureaucracy.

Such bureaucracies are selfgenerating, and almost impossible to bring to account. It was for this reason that I voted to leave. Douglas Mumford

York

sir – Perhaps Mr Juncker’s vision should address a narrower issue: that is, how Brussels will end the appalling youth unemployment in southern Europe – still between 30 and 40 per cent, as a direct result of the illconsidered introduction of the euro.

To deprive a generation of their life chances is unconscionable. Malcolm Williams

Chichester, West Sussex sir – As Dia Chakravarty (Comment, September 12) suggests, the Government should call time on the EU’S continued intransigence over Brexit and walk away from the negotiations, which are clearly designed to reach the conclusion that Brussels has already determined.

It is obvious that the differences between the two sides are irreconcilable and can never be agreed democratically, because the EU is undemocratic. It is a quasi-totalitarian state, whose banks are bust, and the pretence of recovery is only kept alive by quantitative easing. The EU remains a flawed concept, where the imperative has always been political, rather than economic.

The EU has a very significant trade surplus with Britain. In the absence of a trade agreement, member states will soon begin to suffer. They will choose economic reality over political dogma, rebelling against the diktats of the Brussels elite John Barker

Prestbury, Cheshire