SIR – In Afghanistan, many Western nations favouring ‘democracy’ have spent billions of dollars and sacrificed thousands of lives in order to enable that country to put in place a president elected by a majority of its people.

In Europe, a shady cabal of scheming politicians meet in corridors and behind doors to put in place a president of Europe unelected by any of its people.

Ain’t democracy wonderful?

Graham Hoyle, Kirkbourne Grove, Baildon, Shipley