IN response to the apparent well organised group of letters attempting to belittle the statements I make in the previous week’s edition of your paper they all concentrated on my quotation of the many people I canvassed door to door over the last eight years on a daily basis from Shipton Bellinger to Tadley, including Whitchurch and Overton.

They said to me that they felt that the EU would never refer to our country as ‘Great Britain’ and would always use the title ‘United Kingdom’. Indeed, before we joined the Common Market which later was changed to the now EU, our cars carried GB plates and Great Britain was the title that the rest of the world used, as I found out in my travels worldwide.

I don’t have to wonder why they totally ignored the main contents of my letter of how any intelligent British person would want to stay in a corrupt organisation like the EU run by unelected bureaucrats whose auditors have refused to ‘sign the books’ for 22 years on the trot. And the fact that we have virtually no power at all as our politicians are but a fraction of the overall vote in their parliament and that the EU demands, and gets periodically, huge financial sums of money amounting to billions of pounds in addition to our weekly membership fee. Also, the fact that those people who are strongly campaigning to ignore the democratic Brexit vote to get our sovereignty back are in reality committing treason, therefore reinstate fully the Treason Act.

So, again I quote the hundreds, I mean thousands of people, that I have canvassed over the past few years that the remainers, remoaners or whatever you like to call them have either been brainwashed or have a personal gain by wanting to stay in the corrupt EU.

Peter Sumner, Coachways, Andover.