RESPONDING to my previous week’s letter, a correspondent last week (Standard, December 13) stated that I was factually incorrect in stating that the EU was both corrupt and unelected.

Well the bare facts are that the auditors of the EU accounts found material errors in payments for 22 years running from 1994-2016.

Any normal organisation would have been shut down very early on for this adverse opinion.

But hey, let’s be charitable; perhaps all the billions of euros that went astray finished up in the hands of good causes?

Are EU Commissioners a good cause?

As for being elected, well turnout for elections for the European parliament across Europe has been falling steadily for the past 30 years.

In the UK, turnout in the last election was 35%, and would have been a lot lower were it not for the popularity of the anti EU party UKIP, who got the biggest share of the vote.

The Commission holds the real power and we do not elect them.

The UK MEP’s have about as much power as Plaid Cymru have in the UK Parliament ie virtually nil.

The question is; if they do have power then why don’t more people turn out in EU elections?

If they don’t then what is the point of them?

So the EU is not corrupt or unelected?

Well I guess you could make a case for this, but not much of one.

David Roe

Stratton