I am glad the question of the EU has been raised.

The Prime Minister is trying to persuade us to join the Eurozone. I am still looking for the benefits.

Jobs? The only jobs created are jobs for the boys (well done, the Kinnocks). Unemployment in the Eurozone is much higher than here.

Peace? The strength of the Nato alliance with US involvement is our safeguard. Squabbling among our Euro partners can hardly get much worse. Just imagine a Euro army.

Cheaper prices? Not according to members of the Eurozone.

But the really important issue we have to face is the loss of control over our destiny, our taxation and our interest rates.

Economic growth over the next 50 years will be outside Europe (China and other far-eastern countries) so why tie ourselves more closely to a badly run, corrupt and untrustworthy organisation?

-Richard Allden, New Church Road, Hove