Kevin Pyne, of Lake Street, Dartmouth, writes:

My daughter was in Paris at the weekend officiating at exams, while my son deals with ships from all over Europe as part of his job .

They speak French to a greater or lesser degree and were brought up to embrace Europe because I was born just five years after the second of two costly, bloody and horrendous world wars that far wiser people then myself throughout Europe never wanted to see again.

That to me is what a united Europe is all about. That is why we were encouraged to ­intermingle and to trade with each other and be so reliant on each other that it would never again happen.

Sure, the fat cats need ­chucking out and laws should be made in the countries that require them, not in Brussels. However, we are safer in Europe as the storm clouds rise up over the Middle East and President Putin is as unpredictable as a viper found under a rock on a sunny day .

I think we would be leaving the EU at our peril – and mainly because we only remember the good times in Europe and not the bad times, which could so very easily come again.