The strikes and blockades held recently by French lorry drivers and farmers have demonstrated why Britain should not get any further involved with Europe.

France, as one of the major European countries, has proved many times in the past it is subject to mob rule. As it obviously cannot control its own people, how can it presume to control Europe, which was its original objective as stated by General Charles De Gaul not long after the last war?

Britain has been a sovereign nation for almost 1,000 years and many people would hope it remains so.

-Bernard Albrow, Alexandra Villas, Brighton