A "don't know" vote on the ballot paper, as suggested by Roy Hilliard (Opinion, May 7), would not have to be considered in an honest general election that included the loss of sovereignty of the UK into a federal Europe.

In the House of Commons, 79 questions were asked on the European Union during a period when 200 EU laws binding on the UK Parliament were enacted by the unelected EU Commission of Ministers.

Partner nation Germany is suggesting the Commission of Ministers becomes an elected executive able to enforce a single currency in all partner states and thus form a United States of Europe by increasing the power of the European Parliament.

Britain is changing because, till now, Catholic socialist mainland Europe has considered our island part of Europe, though "British" rather than "European".

It is now dishonest for any political party to take votes by pretending the UK can keep the pound beyond the end of the next parliament or be in Europe and not ruled by Europe. Every "don't know" vote counts as never before.

-John Stanaway, Lorna Road, Hove