I have tried to read and digest the arguments for and against leaving the EU as expressed in your letters page and elsewhere in the media. I must say that the 'Remain' party are far from inspiring.

For example, I have beside me their flyer, it shouts: "MORE JOBS LOWER PRICES". Really? Where would these extra jobs come from? And how would prices (of what exactly) come down?

Would the EU commissioners, as a pat on the head for staying, give UK companies contracts that would otherwise have gone to European firms?

And would those same commissioners lower the precept that the UK is required to pay? Of course they wouldn't, in fact I think that far from receiving a pat on the head, the UK, then in an even weaker position than it is now, would be treated with contempt for making so much fuss and then tamely submitting to the yoke; never to be released. They don't listen to us now, they would be even less likely to then!

The flyer also says that to leave the EU would be a 'leap in the dark' well, not so much as the vote in 1975 was!

Then our leaders deliberately hid their Napoleonic intention to create a supra-national state with its own parliament and over-bearing beaurocracy from us because they knew that the British people would never accept it.

I see a vote to leave as a step into the light where we would once again be free to pursue our national interests without reference to the stifling EU rule book, a fine example of which is our current inability to provide effective help to our steel industry due to EU rules.

We should also keep in mind when such organisations as the CBI tell us we should stay that they told us if we didn't adopt the Euro the sky would fall!

In fact I find the remain campaign wholly negative and totally depressing, it paints a picture of a Britain no longer willing to take risks, scared to face the world, a Britain unwilling to speak for itself and, unable to defend itself, cowering behind the skirts of Europe, to paraphrase Hilare Belloc; 'Holding onto nurse for fear of something worse!'

John Neimer

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