THERE were three UKIP letters published on one day recently.

Firstly, Jean Romsey. She, like so many, claim that by leaving the EU, we would have border controls.

The point is, we have border controls. We are not subject to the automatic free movement of people entering Britain.

Even if we left the EU, we have always had a policy of allowing people from overseas to settle here. Hence we are a multi-race nation.

She, for some reason, also blames the EU for all our flooding, pointing the blame at the lack of dredging.

It is my brief that our government who decides how much and where money is to be spent.

She oddly enough also mentions the savings of MEPs’ salaries if we left the EU.

How much is Ukip claiming for achieving nothing?

If that money were to pay for proper MEPs, whose only interests are to ensure we get the best deals possible for our membership, it would not be wasted.

I wonder why no Ukip MEPs appear to write letters to the Echo, and back up the likes of Jean Romsey!

Then there was of course Leslie O’Bee. He writes that Germany was wrong to provide sanctuary to fleeing migrants.

Where are people who are scared to death meant to go if not turning to fellow human-beings?

Mr. O’Bee told me he thought his surname was Dutch. His family came to Britain, in that case.

Leslie refers to the gap between us and France, and that we here are an island, and yet forgets that Ireland is not attached to main-land Europe, and they have the single currency. That seems to be working out quite well for them.

Europe is not in any more of a shambles than any other part of the world. The whole idea that Britain governs it’s self better is an absolute nonsense. We have one of the worst debts on the planet.

Finally, one from Pearline Hingston, who has been the PPC for UKIP.

She, for some reason, claims that the Commonwealth’s hands are tired by our membership of the EU.

That is nonsense.

The Commonwealth trades with the EU, and with us.

The difference is, the EU is on our door step, and we have always been Europeans.

The Commonwealth is spread about the globe, with some countries having an appalling reputation in the way they treat their people.

Pearline came from Jamaica. I wonder why she has not returned!

She writes that the Commonwealth people are treated as second class.

I think the likes of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and so on, won’t be best pleased with such a comment.

Canada by the way, now has a Liberal government.

Echo reader Richard Grant, Burley