Last Sunday my wife and I just returned from a wonderful two-week holiday in Greece and I write to reassure Lancashire Telegraph readers that we experienced no problems.

There was nothing at all that caused us any concern, and we travelled widely with our hire car. All cash points worked fine and the Euro withdrawal problems only affect, unfortunately, the local Greeks, although we did take cash as well, just in case.

The Greek people remain as friendly and welcoming as ever and their tourist industry is functioning as normal. There were plenty of posters everywhere reading “OXI”, Greek for “NO”, but we saw no signs of any problems even during their referendum. It was indeed a privilege to see democracy in action in the home of its birth.

What really was disturbing happened only after we returned home, and saw Greek democracy thrown to the ground, its neck stood on by the Troika, and a gun held to its head. All in order to continue with a financial solution from Germany which even the IMF now says is untenable.

Anyone must now surely realise that the people of Europe are again imperiled by a creeping totalitarian threat, this time from a statist Brussels-based, financial, anti-democratic elite. In a disturbing re-run of history, every day the EU appears to take on more and more of the characteristics of the old Soviet Union. Watch out Italy, Spain and Portugal as you are next for the treatment.

I worry greatly about where this EU technocratic quest to force all of Europe into one homogeneous block of processed cheese will end up? The signs are not good.

Just for the record, I am not a member of any political party and never have been (and nor will I ever be if they carry on like this).

Scott Mitchell