SIR – Having regard to the palatial office block being prepared for Baroness Ashton and her 1,000-plus staff in Brussels, it begs the question, what for?

We have a government attempting to fill the hole in our finance by cutting millions of pounds and pouring billions of pounds into the power-mad useless organisation known as a European Union. Can anyone give me any valid reason why we don’t pull the plug on this lot?

EW Taylor Redditch