Three letters critical of the European Union were published in your March 10 edition. All need a reflective response.

Bill Wiggin claims that Norway and Switzerland can trade with Europe without accepting the supremacy of EU law. In stating this he is factually wrong. Both these countries have to abide by EU regulations, have to contribute to the EU budget and allow freedom of movement. The Norwegians comment: We pay, but have no say. Our MP should have known better.

P Blackwell of Callow was sold the Common Market, not the EU. Indeed we all were. But while I may have bought a Ford Cortina in 1975 I didn't expect to drive the same model for 40 years. Prime Ministers past and present - Heath, Thatcher, Major and Cameron agree with me.

Hugh Davis (no relation) comments on Jesse Norman's EU cost figure of £6.3 billion (Bill Wiggin has it as £10 billion) and then refers to Tim Congdon's calculation of £190 billion. So while MPs only disagree, the economist and academic disagrees extravagantly. Congdon, now a figure I gather in the Farage empire, seems to be striving for old-testament prophet status. No doubt it will be a plague of locusts from Europe next. Time will tell.

Andrew Davis

Ledbury