INSTEAD of thinking “What’s in it for me?” in the present political debate I do wish that people would stand back and consider the more noble view of why the European Union was formed.

I was 12 years of age when the 1939 war started and I spent all of my teenage years in wartime conditions. For some of the time I was a messenger on my bicycle in the town.

At the age of 18 I was conscripted into the army and spent three years in the British Army of Occupation in the ruins of Germany. I was fortunate enough to miss the actual conflict.

The European Union was instituted in the hope of stopping any further conflict by tying all the nations in together, which seems, so far, to have been successful.

Kenneth Jevons

East Howe Lane

Bournemouth