I WAS astonished by the letter from Mr Lewis (Your Say, August 12) regarding the cheapness of the EU.

Does he realise that recent Government figures tell us the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) costs each British family £18 a week in food costs? Even if it's cheap, does he really want to live in a dictatorship?

Mikhail Gorbachev recently asked why European countries were so keen to recreate the old USSR in Western Europe.

I believe an even imperfect Parliamentary democracy to be preferable to an unelected commission-run EU in Brussels.

This country is in grave danger at the moment.

We are facing a three-point pincer movement, all of which want to impose a dictatorship in their own image – (1) the EU, (2) an elite group of "Marxists" who for the last 30-40 years have infiltrated all influential areas of our society, and (3) Islamic fundamentalists.

The first two may be in cahoots already (having lived among Muslims in Aston, Birmingham, for 20 years, most Muslims are not fundamentalists, and were excellent neighbours, so group three is a small but growing group).

The elite group I refer to includes people in the following professions: politics (some present Cabinet included), the law, police, education, armed forces, media, the Church and medicine.

I'm sure I don't need to spell it out for readers (I can if necessary) because they can see what I'm talking about all around them in our lawless, illiterate, above-the-law, unaccountable population. So when finally enough of our population are numbed and powerless, this elite will step in promising – Hitler-like – to solve our problems and, if they can beat the EU fascists and Sharia-keen Islamists to it, impose a "we know best" dictatorship.

Of course, if we can get out of the EU as soon as possible, we "beat" one "attacker" away, and then we can concentrate on the other two.

Out of the EU and away from the CAP, we can help ourselves financially (food costs and upgrading pensions) and help African farmers who won't have cheap food dumped on them by us via the CAP. No doubt charities will be delighted to have further help given to African farmers.

Martin Young Clevedon