The "Say no" campaign's supposedly pro-European attitudes must be considered laughable considering the central role Adolf Hitler plays in its latest advertising campaign.

To have Rik Mayall dressed as the dictator declaring "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Euro" is a crass attempt to put over a serious political point - that the euro will lead to an undemocratic single European state.

Rather than the harmless joke the campaign claims, this is the latest in a line of such comments from anti-Europeans.

Nicholas Ridley was famously forced to resign when he compared the euro with Hitler, while just last year Sir Peter Tapsell said the Nazi Reichsbank first proposed the single currency.

For more than half a century, the European Union has helped ensure Europe is peaceful, prosperous and democratic.

The anti lobby knows this but still tries to pander to outdated stereotypes inspired by the Second World War.

So much for any claims by the anti-euro campaign that it is not actually anti-European.

-Peter Kyle, Lansdowne Place, Hove