DENIS Fryer’s letter in Wednesday’s Echo has me bemused. He seems to think Remain voters want to maintain the status quo and Leave voters want to change everything.

He may not have noticed but the stated aim of the EU is the gradual replacing of nation states with regions to create one big European empire, ruled over by a president who is elected not by the public but by a council of politicians whose appointment is then rubber stamped by the EU parliament.

I’m not suggesting that these politicians are in any way corrupt but the potential for bribing your way to power is very much there, therefore I would think finding yourself a citizen of a region in an EU empire with no way of influencing who rules over you would be a massive change and certainly not what I think of as the status quo.

Indeed, there has never been a status quo other than the rock band. The last 40 years in the EU has seen constant change and it will continue to change, as will the UK, in or out.

I think you will find most Leave voters only want to return to the time when the UK government was in full charge and had to shoulder full responsibility for their decisions, and if they messed up and were voted out, they had to find a proper job rather than a second career within the EU administration, with a huge salary as their reward for towing the EU line.

As for tariffs, has he looked at the tariffs the EU uses to maintain its bloated agricultural and manufacturing sectors and how this prevents third world countries from dragging themselves out of poverty?

Colin Hems

Sholing