Readers' letters

This is how good the EU has been for UK jobs Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with EU grant. Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant. Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers pension funds.

Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant. British Army’s new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in Spain using Swedish steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.

Dyson gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan. Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was Metal Box), gone to Poland with EU grant, once employed 1,200.

M&S manufacturing gone to Far East with EU loan. Hornby models gone. In fact all toys and models now gone from UK along with the patents all with EU grants. Gillette gone to eastern Europe with EU grant. Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant.

Indesit (washers and dryers) at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU grant. Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park foam plant will relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, with EU funding

Hoover Merthyr factory moved out of UK to Czech Republic and the Far East by Italian company Candy with EU backing. ICI integration into Holland’s AkzoNobel with EU bank loan and within days of the merger, several factories in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs

Boots sold to the Italians - Stefano Pessina, who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £80m a year, using an EU loan for the purchase. UK airports are owned by a Spanish company. Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company. UK strategic oil pipelines (military airfields) are owned by a Spanish company.

Most London buses are run by Spanish and German companies. The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built by French company EDF, part owned by the French government, using cheap Chinese steel which has catastrophically failed in other nuclear installations. Now EDF say the costs will be double or more and it will be very late even if it does come online.

Swindon was once our producer of rail locomotives and rolling stock. Not any more, it’s Bombardier in Derby and due to their losses in the aviation market, that could see the end of the British railways manufacturing altogether even though Bombardier had EU grants to keep Derby going which they diverted to their loss-making aviation side in Canada.

Thirty nine per cent of British invention patents have been passed to foreign companies, many of them in the EU

The Mini cars that Davi.d Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering, are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria.

His campaign bus was made in Germany even though we have Plaxton, Optare, Bluebird, Dennis etc., in the UK.

The bicycle for the Greens was made in the far east, not by Raleigh UK but then they are probably going to move to the Netherlands too, as they have said recently.

Anyone who thinks the EU is good for British industry or any other business simply hasn’t paid attention to what has been systematically asset-stripped from the UK.

Name me one major technology company still running in the UK, I used to contract out to many, then the work just dried up as they were sold off to companies from France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, etc., and now we don’t even teach electronic technology for technicians any more, due to EU regulations.

I haven’t detailed our non-existent fishing industry, that the EU has paid to destroy (using our money of course).

C Fazackerley, via email

County should decide on PM

As a pensioner, like Josephine Taylor (letters June 28) I voted for remain with reasons similar to hers. This was despite having reservations about certain aspects of EU membership such as the extravagant bi-annual circus between Brussels and Strasbourg.

Having lost the vote, however, we will be left with circa 150,ooo Tory members voting to select who will lead the difficult negotiations, little democracy there then. If that proves to be the case, in my opinion the only suitable leader would be David Davis.

He was the only prominent advocate for leaving who promoted his case in a sound and sensible manner. His background is also more in tune with ordinary voters, and has a personality which would help to surmount the huge divisions which have arisen in the country.

Denis Lee, Ashton

Time to rebuild our industries

Britain has lost so much from EC membership that it is now time to rebuild. We need to remove the hateful European circle of stars emblem from everywhere. As the policy forced on us by politicians, civil servants and media commentators has been rejected it is now time for all those EU supporters and for those who drove ‘Project Fear’ to leave politics for good. They have shown they are not fit to govern.

Room needs to be left clear for the people who wanted to leave to have a completely free hand to put things right in Britain.

We have had enough of dim lightbulbs, the evil waste of dead fish thrown back in the sea, English apple orchards being rooted up, laws against Imperial measures, the systematic destruction of British industries the imports of EC milk whilst British farmers are put out of business.

We have had enough of lunatic ‘human rights’ laws which prevent photographs of escaped prisoners being published, or prevent the assets of terrorists being seized. We need a thorough practical scheme of reconstruction, financed with the money which has up to now been given over to Europe. One focus here needs to be defence, which has been run down for far too long. There are many other areas needing reconstruction such as repairs to the roads, flood defences and the NHS. Rebuilding needs to be the focus.

Stephen Booth, Galgate, Lancaster