PERHAPS we can set straight some of the figures about the merits of EU membership being bandied about on the letters page.
First, our net contribution this year is to reach a staggering £10.4 billion. Next year it will cost £9.9 billion.
I don’t know where readers get a figure of £2.8 billion from, but it is not true.
Second, those “official figures” of every household benefitting by £3,000 is based on a claim by the CBI, a private avidly pro-EU body, which is a gross misrepresentation of statistics and nobody knows how they arrive at this sum.
Third, three million jobs directly linked to the EU is another untruth because that is based on the complete distortion of a report by an academic who has since denied he claimed that.
Finally, when it comes to immigration, a gross total of 630,000 foreign nationals settled here in the year ending March 2015, but the government always airbrushes it out by quoting the net figure, which is only half that. We can cope with this huge influx can we?
Frankly, we would be insane to stay in this corrupt, bullying, undemocratic outfit.
Peter Flanagan, Holly Tree Garth, Stockton-on-the-Forest, York
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