I WAS shocked and saddened to read in the Echo (May 6) about the man who was beaten up for having a UKIP sign in his garden.

This can only have been done by ignorant people who don’t take the trouble to find out what UKIP stands for.

All we want is to leave the EU, so that the UK can make its own laws, including putting sensible curbs on immigration. It’s not about race, it’s about space.

The UK cannot continue to admit millions of people, ad infinitum. We are now the sixth most crowded country in the world. It is causing meltdown in the NHS and overcrowding in our classrooms. Also, our youth unemployment is at an all-time high because big business prefers to employ cheap labour from the EU.

In the last five years, our national debt has increased from £1tr to £1.5tr, yet Mr Cameron is happy to continue paying £55m a day to the EU, until his referendum in 2017.

We need a vote on the EU now!

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