MR MILLER is perfectly entitled to display is a Nazi poster.

But it he is 100 per cent wrong to claim the the EU is not democratic.

The EU has three main institutions, two of which are democratically elected – that is one more than we have.

The European Council is composed a elected ministers from the countries of each member state.

The Parliament is composed of directly elected MEPs.

The EU Commission is the civil service who are recruited on merit, save for the commissioners, who are each nominated by the member states and approved by the Parliament.

Everything agreed in the EU has to be approved by both the Council and the Parliament so each law has a double legitimacy.

We can hardly complain when our second chamber is filled with hereditary peers, religious clerics and appointed political cronies and is completely unrepresentative of ordinary folk.

Nor can we complain if our Parliament never debates EU proposals which are sent to the UK for consultation.

What discussion in Parliament was there in respect of the renegotiation undertaken by Mr Cameron?

Do or MPs ever meet and consult with our MEPs?

It is a different story in Denmark were their ministers are sent to Brussels with a mandate from their Parliament.

There is a democratic deficit in our Government but it lies much closer to home in London.

This is no reason to leave the world’s largest economic bloc and put our prosperity and peace at risk.

We have been very successful in the EU.

In 1976 we had to go cap in hand to the IMF – now we are one of the strongest developed economies in the world and that is because we have a unique relationship with the EU.

We have kept our own currency, we have kept our border security and controls and now we are exempt from “ever closer union”.

And yet we are at the table with a big say in the future and full access to the world’s largest market.

It is an ideal position and no other country has a deal anywhere near as good.

We would be daft to throw away 40 years of British success.

Mike Biden

Winchester