Val Gibbons, of Seymour Drive, Dartmouth, writes:

The Brussels bigwigs – those unelected, overpaid and unsackable commissioners – must hate us with a vengeance now that we’ve set the referendum ball rolling.

Dutch voters are demanding a referendum over continued EU membership and, with

its fast-rising support, the Alternative for Deutschland party in Germany is also gaining momentum.

The EU is increasingly unpopular in Sweden, France, Austria, Hungary, Greece and elsewhere, and it’s only a ­matter of time before referenda are demanded there too, especially if the Germans, Dutch or ourselves vote to leave.

Each ‘member state’ has its anti-EU party and they are gaining members rapidly as voters recognise that the EU is a massively expensive ‘talking shop’, but is useless when ­confronted by real challenges such as the migrant crisis and the failure of the euro as a ­sustainable currency.

We ‘outers’ maintain that, contrary to Mr Cameron’s claim, a vote to continue membership of the EU is the ‘leap in the dark’; and if we use the analogy of a sinking ship, it is we who quickly but calmly approach the nearest lifeboat, lower it and push off in the direction of our choice, who will secure the best opportunity to sail sensibly into the ­sunset.

The ‘human remains’ will, in time, rue their decision, just as I who voted ‘yes’ in the ’70s ­referendum resent the confidence tricksters who sold me the idea of a cosy little trading pact among a few neighbouring countries with shared social values and fiscal traditions. Well, they won’t catch me twice.

Have you decided yet?