The EU is a destabilising, expansionist force that does nothing to protect Britain’s security

SIR – The four former Supreme Allied Commanders of Nato (Letters, May 29) are at least honest when they say it is in America’s interests for Britain to remain in the European Union.

However, they are effectively asking the British people to disregard our own interests and our sovereign democratic future.

Moreover, they are misguided to believe that the EU will ensure a stable and peaceful Europe. It is clear that many EU bureaucrats are determined to emasculate Nato by creating an EU army, and their expansionist aims risk destabilising the continent.

I can find no good reason for Britain to stay in the EU, and the security it provides is one of the least convincing. Peter de la Nougerede Seaford, East Sussex

SIR – The former commanders write that “each of us had ample opportunity to assess the critical importance of British leadership in the EU.”

However, they have drawn the wrong conclusions. Don’t they realise that Britain has to kowtow to the EU?

It is a mistake to confuse military partnerships with the EU bleeding our country dry by making us prop up the majority of the other EU countries. Nigel Walley Newcastle, Staffordshire

SIR – The EU’s military record includes the total mishandling of the post-Yugoslav wars and the premature embrace of Ukraine, which so angered Vladimir Putin. It has in no way contributed to our security. Ian Wylie Evercreech, Somerset

SIR – The 72nd anniversary of the DDay landings takes place tomorrow. It has recently been my privilege to discuss the events of that day with a friend who was there.

We have also touched on the EU referendum and his decision to vote to leave. His position is simple: he and his comrades fought to restore freedom to the Continent and to preserve Britain’s sovereignty. His visit to the polling station will, he explained, be an attempt to honour that sacrifice and to restore what they won for us.

The fact that Angela Merkel has threatened us with economic consequences if we leave the EU shows how we have been betrayed by our leaders over the past four decades. Yet again Germany dominates Europe, although this time it is simply because of its economic success. However, I am left wondering what those who gave their lives for Britain would make of a German Chancellor attempting to frighten us into her way of thinking.

As someone who was two years old when the last referendum took place, I am looking forward to joining my 92year-old friend on June 23 in his attempt to end this shameful, illogical surrender of sovereignty. Rev Jamie Taylor Sonning, Berkshire

SIR – Michael Fallon (Comment, May 29) claims that he is a lifelong Eurosceptic who wishes to remain in the EU. He is comfortable existing within an organisation he despises – to the extent that, even when offered the chance to leave, he prefers to remain. This is a case of Stockholm Syndrome.

Many in the Remain camp have convinced themselves that there could not possibly be an alternative way to achieve cooperation between Europe’s nation states. For supposedly enlightened people to think like this is very worrying. We need politicians who question the status quo. Iain Duffin Malmesbury, Wiltshire

SIR – Mr Fallon is absolutely right. The EU is not perfect, but then nothing is. For reasons of security and prosperity, we are far better off working within the EU to improve it and to protect our national interests.

Let’s stop all this silly rhetoric, vote Remain and tell our politicians to get their acts together to do whatever it takes to make the EU more transparent and the best place for Britain to be. David Greene London NW8