MAURICE Vassie focuses on the wrong issues in the EU debate (Letters, May 3). Brexit doesn’t threaten isolation.

It seeks the right of our massive economy to trade on our own terms, the protection of our democracy, and above all an end to the unregulated influx of cheap labour that currently keeps wages low and undermines job security.

I’m an instinctive internationalist, and hate the way the right has dominated the out campaign.

I’d readily support membership of a democratic anti-austerity EU instead of this bankers’ business cartel we’re tied to now.

We can’t know in detail what Brexit will mean for us. But the scare tactics and threats from the inners won’t work.

It is bread-and-butter issues of jobs and wages, and a desire to influence our destiny through our own democratic institutions, that will determine the outcome of the referendum on June 23.

Colin Hall, Tower Place, York