The item “Importation of pill approved by the EU cannot be stopped’” (July 8) seemed to go well over the heads of the anti-pill campaigners who, nevertheless, persisted with their line about why it should be banned in Malta. It seems that many Maltese - a noisy proportion of whom insists on gleefully telling Brits how they should have voted in their referendum and why their country is now doomed forever - were either not following the debate or didn’t understand one of the major factors of it.

The point that has escaped them (but which persuaded many voters to want to leave) is that most laws and the most important national decisions are no longer being made by the MPs that they elect.

About 60 per cent of them now emanate from the EU.

It may be the case (although I don’t know whether a vociferous majority is also an electoral majority) that the Maltese do not want the morning-after pill. What they clearly haven’t grasped is that nobody cares what they want or don’t want. What matters is what Brussels wants, approves and decides for them.

Unidentified and unelected people - not the MPs you elected to do that job - now make the majority of laws for Malta. The EU doesn’t shout this fact out loud. You discover it only when it makes a law that affects, or possibly offends, you personally.

So, here’s the dilemma: you either give up the major benefit of EU membership - which is getting twice as much of what you pay - or you quit and decide you will make your own laws.

My guess is that the cash benefit will sway opinion, at least for a while. Sometime in the future, Malta can look at the UK and see how it is doing, on the outside. My guess on that would be... well, let’s wait and see.