THE question in this referendum I should like the answer to is this: Why don’t those in the ‘Remain’ camp want us to become a self-governing, self-determining democracy again?

There is plenty of evidence that we have lost control.

Just three examples: we all saw how our prime minister trawled around the EU for nine months, asking the Eurotocracy to be allowed to change how we spend our taxpayers’ money on benefits for new immigrants.

He came back with nothing. Not even his piffling concessions written on the back of a bar bill and signed by Frau Merkel and J-C Juncker.

Mortified by his inability to persuade us he had got something, he then pleaded with the oligarchs, at least to allow him to reduce VAT on tampons.

They said ‘no’, indicating what we will suffer in EU taxes once they have completed the political, monetary and taxation union. If we vote to stay in, we shall be milked dry to save their collapsing doomsday single currency Euro.

Finally, the issue of immigration shows explicitly how much control of our country and Parliament has been given away.

A country that cannot control its borders is no longer a self-governing democracy. It is as simple as that.

They keep saying we are not part of the Schengen Agreement, but that makes no difference.

We cannot stop any EU citizen crossing our borders and we are not given the information from the other 27 states as to whether immigrants have convictions in their own country.

If we find out they do, we still cannot deport them, because the EU Supreme Court in Luxembourg says we cannot.

So, I come back to my original question: Why don’t those in the ‘Remain’ camp want us to become a self-governing, self-determining democracy again?

What have they got against us, we British?

And why have we got a British prime minister using a farrago of fear and unsubstantiated falsehoods to bully us into feeling bad about taking back control?

TONY WOODCOCK

Dingle Road, Southbourne

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