IT MAY seem a little over-dramatic to suggest that if, on June 24, I wake up to a Remain victory then I will no longer be British but European. But there is an adjustment to be made and that is as good a time as any to make it.

We can’t go on forever complaining that we’re not allowed to favour ‘our own people’ in jobs and housing. If we now fail to change our political reality then we must instead change our sense of who we are. We need to resolve our identity dysphoria one way or the other.

This would be unfortunate for the poorer of the formerly-British; for who then will feel any particular responsibility towards them? We have so far helped by subsidising them in work that can’t otherwise generate a viable income. But what is the point of our continually trying to mop up unemployment when the labour taps are open and the European sink is overflowing?

Once we are all Europeans we can tell the unemployed to get on their bikes and onto the Eurostar to find a job or a cheaper place to be jobless in another part of our European homeland. Everyone who matters will be happy.

Conservative businessmen can import new workers to keep their profits up. Labour politicians and trade union leaders can import new voters to keep them in wellpaid jobs.

J Riseley, Harrogate

THE letters you publish in your newspaper support the Leave or Remain campaigns, but very few mention democracy.

The UK democratic system is entirely different from the EU.

The elected EU Parliament has no power to instigate legislation and can only debate the legislation that is instigated by the EU Commission.

Each State appoints a commissioner to the EU Commission. They make the laws and decide what we do, how we do it and when.

The commission is not accountable but they by their nature listen to the lobbyist and international corporations. You know the ones, as they support the Remain vote.

The Remain Campaign calls this democracy.

The objective of the EU is to become a Federal State of Europe which will have the authority to raise taxes, the creation and implementation of all laws and regulations.

Stuart Miles, Prudhoe