Madam,

I am a long way beyond being fed up with the way in which protagonists for both the Remain and Leave camps continue to allow the voting public to be ignorant over so many of the issues pertaining to the EU Referendum. Do they want us to be confused?

Tonight (9 June) on television, former PMs Blair and Major extolled the virtue of EU funding for a bridge in Northern Ireland.

But neither they nor any of the Remain campaigners have mentioned that, while the funding for that and many other projects came from Brussels, the money was sent to Brussels from the UK in the first place. And it wasn’t the UK government’s money, either; the government has no money - it is our money they use.

Whether its VAT, income tax, capital gains tax, corporation tax, whatever tax, we, the taxpayers, supply the money to our government and they send an awful lot of it to the EU who, ever so generously, send some of it back to pay for projects they approve. Bah!

Then there’s the matter of the wonderful social improvements made by the EU law-makers.

Are we really to believe that if the UK left the EU we would be totally incapable of making any such laws ourselves? To listen to many of the Remain group one certainly gets that impression. Rubbish!

Turning to the Leave lot. When will they stop confusing the issue by insisting the UK sends £350m a week to the EU, when we do not? That’s the figure before the rebate which drops the bill by half; UK send only half the £350m and then gets back cash for assorted projects - but only those approved by Brussels, of course.

The Leave camp also claim that security arrangements and intelligence sharing would be as good as it is now if we were no longer members of Europol. But before Europol, the UK led the way in Interpol - which encompasses the whole world and hence a greater source of security intelligence; and we’re still in Interpol.

The Leave party don’t stress this aspect. In a time of heightened security concern in UK this is a serious omission.

They also remain almost completely dumb on the subject of an EU army, a military nonsense of the first order when one considers that most of the EU nations don’t even honour their troop commitments to NATO.

Finally, when are the two sides going to explain in detail how since the EU was formed its economic performance has nose-dived compared with the rest of the world? A whisper now and then, yes - but actual figures, no.

The concept of “I am my brother’s keeper” and hence morally responsible for propping up his shaky economy doesn’t work if one is oneself dragged down to the level of Greece, Spain or Italy.

Scare-mongering? Yes, from both camps. Come on, then; give us some balanced arguments, with not only the bare facts but their follow-up effects too.

And finally, a bit of scare-mongering of my own. >Whichever way the vote goes, it looks very much as though we will need a new prime minister. Cameron has lost his party and hence his authority. Corbyn just doesn’t cut it. Johnson - well, oh my goodness! Who is to lead us? And you thought the referendum was a problem!

Yours etc

Hugh M Jones

Criccieth.