Shropshire Star

Surely it's now time to exit EU

Tucked away between Romania and the Ukraine is Moldova, which has a population of 4.7 million and is Europe's poorest country. Their people have now secured a back door to flood into Britain.

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More than 300,000 Moldovans have taken advantage of special arrangements, which allow them a Romanian passport and once you are in Romania, which joins the EU next year, Moldovans will have exactly the same rights of free entry to work in Britain.

As Moldovans live in the poorest country in Europe, a quarter of its working age population has already fled to find work abroad.

The average wage in Moldova is less than £100 a month and in the last three weeks alone 300,000 have applied, with passport application forms in such demand that they are even being sold on the black market.

Isn't it time something is done? Ask your MP but he will merely shrug and say it's because we're in the EU. I say it's time to leave.

Bruce Lawson, FCA, Montgomery