IN a survey, about half the population would consider replacing politicians with experts who have a proven track record of running big organisations.

The House of Commons is half full of career people, who give the game away by the subject they study at university – politics.

Prime examples are Gordon Brown and Ed Balls. What do they know about management and industry?

Their main interest is self-elevation, with some others it is money, which manifested itself in the expenses scandals, when some Labour MPs were actually sent to prison.

Moreover, how on earth have we come to a situation where we are ordered around by unaccountable and unelected foreign bureaucrats of the European Union, who meet behind closed doors in Brussels?

Eddie Marshal, High Street, Clifford, Wetherby.