• P LAIDLAW conflates Singapore and Venezuela (We’ll turn into Singapore, October 20). It has to be Singapore since the EU already has its own Venezuela, the country formally known as Greece.

It’s a bit rich that supporters of remaining a member of the EU are so insistent that Parliament is sovereign and should have the final say on any deal.

This Parliament ducked out of making the decision and handed responsibility to the electorate by means of a referendum, thus announcing that it very humbly acknowledged its lack of competence in the matter.

The result was clear. The grown-ups had decided the matter yet now Parliament, which should be carrying out the wishes of the majority, has decided sovereignty permits it to interfere to the point of trying to undermine the result.

We should not be too concerned about “credit downgrades” since the agencies concerned failed to see the sub-prime mortgage crisis or the run on the banks. Inflation is fuelled in part by membership of the customs union. Look at the country of origin of the food you buy.

I do wish that those among the “remainers” who have the benefit of a pension from the EU would preface what they say by making it clear that they have a financial interest.

Doubly so, since the bailouts given to Greece include reduction in the amounts paid in pensions and this in a country so devastated by membership of the euro that many households have only one bread-winner, being the pensioner.

STEPHEN SOUTHAM
Mildmay Grove North, N1