Sir -

Reading and watching events unfold in the aftermath of the Paris tragedy, at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, I was struck by the photographs of some of the leaders of European countries, including our own.

Then I read this in a publication (Breitbart, London) by Gerald Warner, "What do you do if you belong to a tyrannical elite that has misgoverned an entire continent for decades, radically transforming its demography and outlawing free speech, when all the dire consequences your opponents warned about are fulfilled in two bloody massacres?

No problem: you simply hijack the protests and pose as the champions of free speech."

European leaders have constantly exposed us all to the much vaunted 'multiculturalism', even where this does not include integration into the greater society, or even full acceptance of the freedoms and culture of those societies.

They stifle and attack those raising real concerns on issues such as the highly dangerous and unstable notion of open borders, by unjustly labelling their detractors "racists" or "xenophobes" or whatever, a practice regularly employed by the liberal left.

They head so-called 'democracies', yet they conspire to ignore the majority of people they purport to represent, by denying them a voice on anti democratic institutions like the EU experiment.

Cameron's now infamous quote from 2009 comes to mind "Today, I will give this cast-iron guarantee. If I become PM a Conservative government will hold a referendum on any EU treaty that emerges from these negotiations [that was the Lisbon Treaty, signed by Brown, which facilitated open door immigration]. No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum."

Hypocrisy and bypassing democracy will not and does not make anywhere in Europe a safer or fairer place to live.

Will Richards

Malvern