I NOTICE Remain/Brexit arguments have started to appear in the letters pages of the Courant . I am not swayed by Peter Morris ( Courant Letters , April 29) and his three main points to remain in the EU – the economy, national security and national identity.

The internationally recognised Legatum Institute’s prosperity index identified Norway and Switzerland as the number one and two most prosperous nations of the world in 2015. Both are within Europe, but not the ‘Union’. The UK slid from 13th to 15th. in two years.

I was working on the ferries out of Hull when the Schengen Agreement came into effect. I was pleased that the UK had not ‘signed up’. The immigration authorities on the continent soon gave up checking incoming passengers when they realised that nobody could travel without a passport or national ID allowing them to do so.

That is still the case, but because of the growth of EU membership, the numbers that can travel to the UK without a visa or approved notification has grown enormously which does seriously compromise our safety and security. And it will get worse.

As regards our national identity, who does Peter Morris think he is kidding when he says we should be taking a leading role alongside our European neighbours? In what?

We have been overruled in legislation too many times and an attempt to gain meaningful reforms was met with scant regard, unless he is suggesting that we should be happy to be subsumed into one big geopolitical super-state. I would hope not.

JOHN MARTIN,

Fourstones