Steve Dooley, of South Pool, Kingsbridge, writes:

Campaigners to stay in the EU talk about leaving/remaining in Europe, rather than the EU. They try to confuse the concepts in our minds. Maybe they think we are too daft to distinguish between a political organisation and a ­continental land mass.

Let’s be clear: we Brexiteers love Europe – the continent, the nations, the people, the cultures, the cities, the food. We welcome Europeans as visitors and enjoy visiting them; we like to trade with them; we twin our towns with them; we like to cooperate with them on issues such as security, policing and the environment. We even participate in the Eurovision Song Contest.

We only object to being in the political structure of the European Union, which exercises undemocratic control over our lives and charges us a huge sum of money for the privilege.

Our friendship with Europe and its peoples existed before we joined the Common Market in 1973 and will continue long after we Brexit on June 23.