THERE have been a number of letters in the Guardian regarding the EU. What is not referred to are earlier EU policies that we have had to endure, such as butter mountains, wine lakes, olive orchards and so on. They even tell us who we can have in our country by their flagrant use of EE Court, which has been a big monetary boost for the lawyers.

The latest knock is regarding dairy farming, because the UK’s dairy farming is one of the smallest in the EEC they get the smallest allocation of grant. No wonder they are on the breadline.

It’s disturbing to see women and children being caught up in these melees taking place at frontiers. These countries now threatened have history on their side.

In the fifteenth century, there was a Caliphate in the Middle East, with Turkey being the major aggressor from taking Constantinople and renaming it Istanbul. Because their countries were occupied by Muslims, naturally they feared their Christian faith was at risk.

None of the Arab countries have come forward to take any of these refugees but Saudi Arabia has offered to pay for 400 mosques in Germany. Even though the Saudis could feed and house more than 2 million pilgrims they catered for during the haj, they won’t allow any of the Syrian refugees a place of safety.

It appears that 80 per cent of the refugees are male and, in some of the melees that take place, it’s not a case of women and children first.

When the Second World War began, the men of this country signed up to fight our enemy, many of these male refugees are actually ducking their army service. Those from countries such as Eritrea, Somalia, the Sudan etc should be repatriated, if they won’t stand up for their own country, we have no chance of them supporting the UK John Oliver Hartford