WHERE do those wanting to leave the EU get their 'facts'? ('We must leave', June 9).

It is completely untrue to say that we have 'voted 72 times, lost 72 times'. Since 1999 there have been more than 2,000 votes in the EU Council and Britain has been outvoted just 56 times. A pretty good record, I should say.

The Leave campaign has also been telling what can only be seen as lies about the amount we pay to the EU.

We live in a country whose system includes a completely undemocratic upper house and a Government with almost absolute power voted by not much more than a third of the votes, only a quarter of the electorate, and we call the EU (which has a representative parliament and a Council of political representatives of all our governments) undemocratic!

The issue dominating the news, however, is immigration. Immigration has made Britain a more interesting and dynamic society (not just since we joined the EU, but over hundreds of years). We have proved perfectly capable of welcoming other cultures, incorporating the best of them and changing the worst.

There are questions about our capacity to absorb large numbers (overcrowded schools and housing shortages in some places, for instance), but these could be addressed by proper government help, instead of the hands-off, the-market-will-provide, policy of the present government.

Martin Wright

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