LETTER: Right decision is to leave EU

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Results from the 2014 EU elections suggested that the majority of those who voted in Horsham District were Eurosceptic.

That has been reinforced by the reception received by the Vote Leave campaign, as it has moved in and around Horsham.

Many offers of help have been received by the the diverse cross party campaign group - from people who want laws to be made in their Parliament, by MPs who are accountable to them.

Many are concerned that our ability to control our own destiny is much reduced, while unelected EU officials have made clear their intention to continue to emasculate national parliaments, taking even more power to themselves.

Concerns range from pressures on housing, the NHS and education - because the rate of migration is not being regulated - to the prospect of being dragged into political union, losing control of our armed forces, our foreign policy our economy. That is not to mention our inability to negotiate trade agreements that suit the UK best.

Many from the older generation feel that they were duped in the 1975 Referendum, believing that they were voting to stay in a ‘Common Market’ and are still sore about that. They see that the PM has failed to get legally binding reform and they do NOT intend to be deceived a second time.

The younger generation is more interested in the high levels of youth unemployment in the Eurozone (over 40 per cent in some countries) and the possibility that the UK might have to join the common currency, or they might be conscripted to serve in the EU Army, that President Juncker has repeatedly called for.