IN response to the letter from Ms Molly Scott Cato MEP, I also urge everyone to make the right decision when voting in the European Referendum; I know that I will as I will be voting to leave for the following reasons: 1 When I voted to unite with Europe it was for a common trading agreement known as the European Economic Community (EEC). Successive governments have signed treaties that we had no say in and we are now in the state of chaos where we cannot rule ourselves.

2 It has been stated that if we leave the EU interest rates will rise. I was purchasing my home when we were in the EU and I remember the interest rates on my mortgage rising to 17.5% , the EU didn’t stop that happening.

3 We pay into the EU coffers £350 million a week and get in return subsidies of £209 million, that leaves us short of £141 million which I believe is used to pay the wages and allowances of the MEPs most who we have not elected. This money could be better spent by us.

4 The NHS, schools and housing are at a point where we have to look at it and see what is causing the problems of non availability of places in schools and housing and there is only one answer, immigration, we have too many people here. Being in the EU we have no say about who is allowed to come to our country and we are even prevented from returning foreign criminals to their own country. It costs about £35K a year to keep one of them in jail, all paid for by you and me.

5 At the moment we import from Germany alone £25 million of goods a year and export to them just £7 million of goods. This doesn’t account for the other countries exports to us. Does anyone think that they would give up trading with us if we left the EU?

I was born just before the start of the Second World War and lived in London right through it so I know what austerity is and believe me I would sooner go back to that and live as we are now, living under the jack boots of the bureaucratic un-elected EU.

Richard M Hayes, Paxcroft Way, Trowbridge