SO VARIOUS correspondents and the Fly in the Ointment are fully signed-up members of the remoaners who are suffering sour grapes and angst that they were overruled by a 17 million majority in the democratic EU referendum.

Note that word democratic.

They bring in the bogus fact that the EU has stopped all wars in Europe since the Second World War.

So can these people look on the internet and read about a sectarian and religious war in Europe’s back yard, namely the Yugoslavian war that sucked in troops from the UN and the EU who nearly ended up fighting a de-facto war with Russia.

Even the UN forces became fragmented.

The result is that the prosperous Slovenia is looking forward to EU and Nato membership.

Croatia is recovering from war, and its territory is intact, although most of its Serbs have fled or been driven out.

Bosnia is divided into two, a shattered land still struggling to overcome the legacy of the war.

Macedonia has been riven by ethnic conflict – but spared all-out war – between ethnic Macedonians and ethnic Albanians.

Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians returned to Kosovo after the war there, but then 230,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians were forced to flee.

It all came about as a false country after the First World War.

Serbia’s Royal Family, the Karadjordjevics, became rulers of the new country, which was officially called the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes until 1929 – when it became Yugoslavia.

Now this is a lesson for the EU – people can live with neighbours but not as a part of their household.

Do the remoaners want a future United States of Europe to happen in Europe?

It’s not the unelected elite that fall out, it’s the populace, then the ‘government’ suddenly finds that the populace is divided and civil war erupts.

Well I can live with a lower exchange rate, which will recover anyway – the FSTE is higher than it’s ever been – and having to have a visa to travel in Europe, when pitted against losing freedom being ruled by a non-elected elite forcing their will upon us.

I would vote out of the EU and for freedom again and again.

The problem for the EU is that the UK has started the ball rolling and in a few years others will want to leave. The EU is doomed and its days (thankfully) numbered.

R Cawley Northwich