DAVID QUARRIE (Letters, November 29) has the audacity to assume that the majority of the UK population wants out of Europe.

Yet until we have a referendum nobody can make such a claim on the evidence to hand.

Jane Collins (Letters, same date) tells us the number of immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria to come to our shores will be 5,000 a year for five years. Tom Mitchell (Letters, same date) just blames the last Government for the present situation, making his point of view somewhat biased.

Romanians have been arriving on our shores for more than ten years, as well as in most of the EU members, In Romania our companies can encourage immigrants by requesting which specialists they want to work for them, but the most important point of all is who would keep our NHS surviving without migrants.

Dennis Barton, Woodthorpe, York.