Madam,

Brexit puts us between the devil and the deep blue sea, and Alan MacMaster’s devil will doubtless be Europe, as opposed to mine being a right-wing, semi-fascist government, enthralled by a soulmate in the White House, and a singular desire to replicate Singapore, a country run by one family, a so-called ‘Benign Dictatorship’ since its establishment in 1959.

The sort of sovereignty that Brexiters salivate over, that encourages them to shut down Parliament to stifle democratic debate, just as the media is stifled in Singapore.

Mr MacMaster talks of ‘running our own show’ but being in a common market inevitably requires common standards in employment law, food and agriculture, and environmental law, to name but a few of the restraints that Tories strongly resent being subject to, which is why they squealed so loudly about The Social Chapter, and why Trump is so keen to see us leave the EU.

Mr MacMaster says reform is for the birds, but there are many existing options to control free movement, which for intriguing reasons the UK did not adopt, and they offer a strong opportunity to negotiate for Remain and Reform.

In 2012 and 2013, Facebook conducted “Massive-scale contagion experiments” to see if they could “affect real- world emotions and behaviour, in ways that bypassed user awareness”.

It was Vote Leave’s use of that personal data technology in our referendum, and by Russia in America’s presidential election, that I termed “corruption” in my last letter.

Nationally, nobody wants to talk about the subject, certainly not Mr MacMaster, who throws a Lynton Crosby ‘Dead Cat’ into the discussion by talking about questionable EU budget audits, and then engages in sophistry to accuse me of ‘dwelling on alleged financial irregularities’.

When I talk to “our youth”, I will say that since the promotion of peace was a central reason for creating the Common market, it is “better to lose some sovereignty than a son or daughter”.

Yours etc, Roger Louvet, Porthmadog.

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