IT WOULD seem that Dave Rice is in the dark about what is and has gone on in the past regarding Britain being either “In or out of the EU” (Letters, April 26).

Let me say first: “It is out”, and explain why.

In the early 1970s when we accepted the EEC version (free trade), how many companies left Britain to set up on the Continent?

Only last year, Twinings tea wanted a £4 million grant to relocate to Poland.

In York, we have lost Terry’s, Vickers Instruments, Armstrong’s, Monroe, the Carriageworks, Sessions and at least 75 per cent of Nestlé.

What is very clear is that the EU has first call on any new investments or contracts. So it is paramount to withdraw as soon as possible to save our Britain for the British.

Mr P Richardson, Haxby, York.