IAGREE wholeheartedly with Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans about the need to ensure that the wishes of the Gibraltarians be paramount in deciding the future of Gibraltar.

It is the height of colonialist arrogance to suppose that a government which the Gibraltarians have not in any part elected can act in their best interests. That is dictatorship.

The day that the Gibraltarians -- Britons every 30,000 -- can be forced out of their homes against their wishes in this, the EU of the 21st century, is the day that democracy dies.

KEN RUIZ, Crimicar Drive,

Sheffield.