Dear Editor,

According to the little Englander ‘in-siders’ if we left the EU our pay would drop by thousands of pounds a year, food prices will rocket, jobs will vanish, the value of our homes be halved, trade would stop, we would be invaded by terrorists, no one would be able to go abroad on holiday, universities would shut, scientists would be unable to work, even World War Three will break out by the end of the year... on and on goes the list of disasters they predict.

I wonder why they never actually go into details of how all these situations are to arise, why firms would leave the UK despite us having one of the best workforces in the world, why we would be unable to travel, why conflict would arise despite having nothing to cause one and all the rest? There can only be one answer which is they have no idea because they are inventing the situations to suit their case; there simply are no disasters waiting for us after June 23rd if we leave.

And another point they never address is how did we British manage to invent so much, have the world’s strongest military, become the workshop of the world and build a merchant navy many times larger than any other to take those goods all over the globe, invent a legal and government system so good it has been copied world wide while controlling a quarter of the planet via our Empire, all without ’help’ from Brussels?

How did our scientists like Newton, Faraday, Jenner or Darwin manage without foreign funds, how did engineers like Stephenson or Brunel make their products with no assistance from abroad and just how did explorers like Cook, Drake, Scott or Cabot manage to sail without the EU’s permission?

All these things, and more, were done because we were once a nation run by people of honest determination, patriots who believed in Britain and her people, men and women we will long remember with drive, energy and skills.

I think we still have such people around but it is because our leaders no longer trust and believe in our nation, its people or what it can achieve, a greatness far beyond its size as we proved over centuries, that they have made us subservient to nations we once refused to bow down to.

I hate to think what the true leaders of the past, men like William Gladstone or Benjamin Disraeli, would make of their modern counterparts like Blair, Brown or Cameron!

David Howle

Vote Leave Constituency

Co-ordinator

Hereford & South Herefordshire