I AM a baby boomer. I feel lucky that I was brought up in that time.

I am part of a generation brought up just after the war that was supposed to end all wars. Our parents fought for the freedom of our nation and many of them are buried in countries where they went to help fight the tyranny that threatened our very existence.

Many would turn in their graves having to read the rantings of Richard Grant.

We have the freedom to vote which is more than many countries have the right to do. Unlike Mr Grant, who must have inside knowledge of the EU and what Brexit would mean to our nation, I don't.

I firstly voted to join the then Common Market because it did open up better trade links with our fellow European countries. It also opened up easier travel between other European countries.

It was not long before new rules on what we could and could not buy outside of the common market came in. We were forced to accept the dreaded French apples over our own, and many other changes were introduced including our justice system.

In a few years a massive new parliament building was built in Brussels at a huge cost, to govern the new Common Market that was to become the European market. This new government party practically threw money at many of the new countries that had joined to allow them to improve their infrastructure, etc.

Then came payback time. Many of these newly invited countries never had the capital to repay these huge loans and many went to the verge of bankruptcy. Countries like Eire, Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain all struggled and had to be bailed out.

Now even more countries have been invited to join, yet many of them are poor and have the same problems.

This is what Brussels has caused. A self-regulated parliament which is costing vast fortunes to run and is all out to change Europe into a single nation, perhaps even calling itself Europa in the future.

This why I and many democratic voters voted to leave this carbuncle before it implodes on itself. I don't know what the future may or not be, but I am sure our parents and grandparents would be proud of us, that we had the guts to pull out and go our own way.

It is time for our new generation to make their own minds up as it's their future in their hands and not the likes of Richard Grant who wish to destroy their democratic rights.

A Semple

Southampton