Kevin Pyne, of Lake Street, Dartmouth, writes:

I am surprised and frankly a bit hurt that a free-thinking woman such as Dr Sarah Wollaston would see us leave the common market .

I have always seen her as a superb MP and what to me true conservatives are all about, and certainly not in the vein of that bunch of opportunist, grabbing, public school twerps that sadly so many of them seem to be today.

As a committed European, I hope my poem says more:

Oh Sarah Woolly you have Surprised me so

For I saw you as a European

And one who would have

Approved of trade between

A union that is set to grow

And whilst I know that it cost

A packet to pay for unnecessary

Bureaucracy day by day

I thought that you might have

Thought that in the name of

Defence alone a united Europe

Was the better, safer way

But yet when it comes to the

Making of new laws for those

Who live upon these shores?

Perhaps it is right that they

Should only be made in Britain

Even if the wealthy and powerful

Will as ever take every available

Opportunity to see off the poor

And another plus for Europe

As far as I can see

Is that they are holding back

A tide of refugees

For while I wish to help my

Fellow man in every way

I am uncomfortable when I am

Not sure whose side our guests

Might then take should a ‘holy

War’ break out again some day

And whilst I did not want to be

A European back in the ’70s

I brought my kids up to be

Europeans and embrace

The ways of such a community

Moreover, you might well be

Far more educated then an old,

Lame, retired ferryman such as me

But just you remember that

The loss of European stability

Could see the rise of another Hitler

And dare I say ‘World War Three’

So let us hope that you, dear

Sarah, are right and I am wrong

And we don’t end up as a

Broke and busted Third World

Country that did not realise

That its empire was now gone.