UK should have been firmer

Sir, – General de Gaulle kept Britain out of the EU for many years.

Both Ted Heath and Harold Wilson wanted to go down in history as the man who took us in – eventually Heath was prime minister when we were admitted.

Because of EU restrictions we lost many good friends such as Australia, New Zealand etc.

Prices escalated, with the price of sugar rocketing so much that people stopped making jam.

There were “butter mountains”, something new to us, and also milk and cheese ones to a lesser extent.

To reduce the size of the mountains, stocks eventually had to be given away or destroyed.

To the best of my knowledge the EU has never produced audited accounts, or even draft ones.

Why did we not, as a major contributor, demand accounts?

We were continually being told to increase our contributions until Margaret Thatcher stood up in the EU Parliament and shouted: “No, no, no.”

The headlines the next day stated that, “Maggie handbagged them”.

The EU did not get the exorbitant amount they were demanding.

We are a small island with limited space – we cannot take in an unlimited number of migrants.

We simply do not have the room nor the facilities to cope with them.

Belgium is notorious for disobeying EU rules and nothing is done about it.

David Cameron went around all the member states asking for support and they all turned their back on him.

He should just have copied Belgium and ignored the EU’S many diktats.

Instead he resigned and walked away.

Hence the mess we are now being left to deal with today. Margaret Cowie. 149A High Street, Montrose.