IN ANSWER to Janet Walls’ letter of April 18.
While we are in the EU, we have to accept ‘free movement of people’, which is why 250,000 EU economic migrants came to Britain in 2015.
If we leave the EU, we will be able to control our own borders, so there will be more jobs for British workers.
Secondly, Nigel Farage never advocated privatising our NHS. This was propaganda on Labour election leaflets.
What I don’t understand is this – the owner of Tata Steel Works in Port Talbot said that he was having to close down because of high business tax (which is controlled by EU laws) and high fuel costs (due to EU tax on carbon emissions).
He could not compete with subsidised Chinese steel, and the UK government cannot subsidise our steel because that is against EU regulations too.
Thousands of steel jobs will be lost because of the EU so why is Jeremy Corbyn, who says he represents the ‘working people’, intent on staying in the EU?
VICKI SHARP
Pauntley Road, Christchurch
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