WE are now less than eight weeks from EU decision day (June 23).

I have yet to see any unbiased straightforward statements of reasons to stay, or to go and paddle our own canoe.

From facts (other than opinion) gleaned, it seems that we pay more into the EU budget than we receive back. Any grants we receive have been handled by expensive layers of bureaucracy.

We are a net contributor. Therefore, surely, simple mathematics indicate we would be financially better off out?

It is also true that we import more from Europe than we export; we are afraid that Europe might raise import tariffs.

This is unlikely when we could so easily respond in kind.

We appear to have forgotten that we also trade (or could) with the rest of a very large world outside of Europe.

Not so long ago, prior to joining the European Common Market, we got along quite well.

There was trade and emigration and immigration, some to/from Europe but not all.

Britons have never been afraid to venture into uncharted water.

Sadly, however, one undeniable fact is that we will lose any faint hope we may have of winning the Eurovision Song Contest.

Pamela Brown, Goodwood Grove, York