Four reasons to vote Leave.

1. An Australian points system would enable us to work out, realistically, how many migrants we need, for our hospitals, care homes, fruit picking, engineers, scientists, factory jobs, etc., so we could then admit, more-or-less, the necessary numbers to fill those jobs, be it 100,000, 120,000 or whatever was deemed to be necessary. The current system has let almost 400,000 people arrive, over the last year, with few actually having jobs to go to, with many now working on the Black Market and with all of them needing housing, NHS care, etc., and we simply cannot stop them coming if they are from the EU even if 800,000 arrive.

2. If there is a dip in trade with the EU is it beyond the wit and wisdom of Britain, the fifth largest economy in the world, to more than make up the difference with the 6bn other people on the planet who we would only then be free to trade with whilst re-establishing trade with the EU? Anyway, the almost bankrupt EU need to trade with us as much as we need to trade with them so any dip in trade shouldn’t last long.

3. Even the EU admits they want a United Nations of Europe and, with several EU leaders having said David Cameron’s ‘concessions’ will amount to nothing or won’t get the treaty changes they need, if we Remain, we will be dragged, kicking and screaming, into further political union whether we like it or not . . . one vote against twenty-seven and with our credit card in constant use.

4. The idea of the EU was to ultimately get every country prosperous, to encourage even-handed trade. With two-thirds of the EU’s countries taking and only a third funding it all, with Greece, and Italy nearly bankrupt, the Euro in tatters and poverty-stricken Albania, Turkey and Macedonia about to join we aren’t going to see economic parity before we’ve had three more ice-ages! Until then, we’ll be paying.

Philip Norman
Davyhulme