Letter: Investments give lie to view of EU lobby
The recent announcement that Nissan is to invest £100 million in its Sunderland plant comes hard on the heels of more great news for British car industry jobs.
Tata also announced that they will invest millions in extending existing facilities in the UK and China's Geely group are investing £250 million in the black cab company in Coventry. The impact on the local supply chain will be huge.
These investments give a lie to the view often quoted by EU fanatics that we would lose jobs if we left the EU.
Firstly these investments are being made when company boards would be factoring in the possibility that the UK will vote to leave the EU in the referendum, clearly they don't think it would make a difference, indeed, it might make our terms of trade even better once we are free from the dead weight that is the EU.
Secondly, the boards of these multinational giants understand something that the pro-EU lobby would rather that you did not know and that is the fact that when we vote to leave the EU we will not be leaving free trade with the rump of the EU, on the contrary our ability to trade freely is enshrined in world trade agreements.
In addition the EU sells us more than we sell them, we can dictate the terms of local European agreements.
What's not to like? We control our borders, export freely to the world, free ourselves of red tape for companies who don't export to the EU and save over £50 billion a year we pay into an organisation which is hell-bent on destroying our sovereignty.
A vote to leave would be cause for a national celebration.
John Stretton, Albrighton
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