ONCE again we have our councillors blaming the Government for the sorry and dangerous state of our hospitals, our education system, the plight of our pensioners etc.

Then Governments blame the bad housekeeping by our councillors for all of the above.

I am sick to death of this pass the buck society. When will someone have the guts to stand up and admit the real culprit is the EU?

Before anyone starts screaming xenophobes ask yourself this question, "If you were given the choice would you give £30 billion a year to a foreign country which has no real concern about the problems we face here, despite what they say? Or would you rather that money went to addressing the serious problems here of our hospitals, schools, roads, etc?

If you are honest your answer would be the same as mine.

Let us stop this obscene waste of public money and get back to sorting out the disaster that has been caused, and continues, by successive governments since Ted Heath joined us into this unholy alliance of a European superstate.

The only beneficiaries are those at the top of the ladder. How much further back do we have to bend before our country breaks altogether?

MOLLY BENNETT, Bursledon.