AS THE EU Referendum draws closer the two opposing camps appear to be polarising their positions.

Mr Cameron, for Remain, has threatened us with everything from a bomb under the UK economy to the onset of World War Three should we exit the EU.

Everything he, and his followers, predict is pure speculation. How often are the “experts” proven wrong?

No one can predict with any certainty how things will pan out if we leave.

“Brexit” are warning against continuing unsustainable levels of net immigration if we stay in the EU, because free movement among the 28 member states is non negotiable, a position made absolutely clear to Mr Cameron during his recent failed attempt to obtain a UK opt out from this clause.

Newly released figures by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), from the 2011 census, show that in the ten years from 2001 net migration into the UK was over two million.

More recent figures from the ONS give the net figure for the year 2015 as 330,000.

There is very little prospect of eastern European states raising their economies to anywhere near the level of the UK’s in the foreseeable future.

With a statutory minimum wage by 2020, higher even than Germany’s, the UK will continue to be a huge magnet for economic migrants from within the EU for decades.

Unless we leave, we cannot prevent unsustainable immigration from within the EU.

The world has moved on since we joined the Common Market in 1973 and UK is well placed to trade with it alone.

Let’s do it.

Rodney Best

Doncaster Road

Weymouth