EU is a net drain on UK’s resources

I was pleased Mr Kerr read my letter. (KM, June 15)

Unfortunately he appears to think I was influenced by just the one project which I used to illustrate the enormity of the EU grant aided infrastructure renewal programme going on all over the newer EU entrant countries and covering far more than transport systems.

Mr Kerr correctly points out the EU grants we receive do not cover road maintenance.

When I made my first visit to Eastern Europe in the early 1990s I discovered PHARE, one of the many EU funds, had started a new road building programme.

Now those countries are covered by comprehensive motorway networks, all heavily subsidised by Western money, including ours.

Meanwhile here, due to austerity since 2007, public authorities have dramatically cut the provision of services we had previously relied on, and yet we pay more to the EU than we receive. In this climate I admire Mr Kerr’s generosity of spirit towards our newfound friends.

I am sure the majority of less well off pensioners and other “just about managings” will be pleased to know how well their money is being spent abroad and how valuable their sacrifices have been, particularly if they knew the sums involved.

When will we reap the benefits of our investments? At the moment we are well served by vast imports of Eastern European food and other goods. We can even buy Cadbury’s chocolate, now cheaply produced in Poland and transported here on the roads we provided. Tony Monk Westerhill Road. Coxheath students to be prepared for an election in September.

It seemed the original instigators wished to bring to the attention of as many students as possible the fact Theresa May (or her successor) might try to reduce the impact of the student vote by announcing an election date outside of university term time, the thinking being their votes would be dissipated because they would not be concentrated in their respective university cities and towns.

The link went on to urge students to choose where their vote would be of most value and register to vote there in a bid to ‘oust the Tories’.

Who one might ask is orchestrating this?

Could it be Momentum, that organisation driving Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign?

It’s not just the Tories who need to be concerned about this organisation, but also Labour MPs who do not support the rampant socialist agenda.

Should they be successful in getting a Corbyn-led party elected to government their rabid ideological dogma will be ruthlessly enforced and any Labour MP that does not embrace their agenda will be “deselected” and replaced by one that does.

Then we’ll all have to witness the UK “going to hell in a handcart”. Christopher Hudson-Gool Sutton Road, Maidstone

In response to letters on the student vote in Canterbury from some people complaining of students having the right to vote where they study. (KM June 15).

If the said students had voted Conservative rather than Labour would the complaints still have been made? No, I don’t think so. Students have had this right for many years and no doubt many students actually settle in the areas where they have studied might it not just be the case of sour grapes. Jim Miller New Romney, by email