Nick Martinek.

From: Nick Martinek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield.
HINDSIGHT is a wonderful thing, if only our politicians would use it. For 40 years we have been part of the EU (or its predecessors) and every British government, Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats, including this one, has insisted that the EU is essential for the UK, but that no evidence is necessary to prove it. At a time of widely reported EU crises, such bluster is no longer acceptable.
If we look back at what has actually happened, we can see that the EU has repeatedly given us vague promises of “influence” and ephemeral concessions in return for our hard cash and sovereignty. And our politicians have fallen for it every time. There is not a single major political development within the EU that has gone the UK’s way. Even the much-vaunted single market costs three times more than its benefits.
Recognising these problems, both the Conservatives and Labour now want to renegotiate our “relationship” with the EU. But the EU is not offering us this option. Our political leaders must think again. There are only two available legal options: to repeal the 1972 European Communities Act (ECA), via our own Parliament, and hence leave the EU; or to invoke Article 50 TEU (from the Lisbon Treaty) where we must ask the EU’s permission to leave. (Yorks Post.)