YOUR columnist Jeremy Craddock expressed his opinion in last week’s Warrington Guardian (May 19) that we are better off staying in the EU.

Now I don’t know how he came to that conclusion but in my opinion given all the scare stories from the remain side of the argument, I don’t see how any of us can make an informed decision.

The original idea of a Common Market, a tariff free trading zone, seemed to be a good one. But somewhere along the way it got hijacked and turned into an EUSSR.

Many of the people who are now saying that if we leave the EU it will have dire consequences are the same ones who would have had us join the Euro zone despite knowing it would be a disaster.

We are ruled by a group of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels who have prime seats on the biggest ever gravy train and EU law supersedes UK law in all areas.

The stealth employed getting to this point is amazing.

The majority of people in the UK just didn’t notice it happening.

Surely the most important point in this in/out campaign is sovereignty?

We fought and died in two world wars and other conflicts to stay free and in charge of our own destiny only to give our independence away bit by bit over the past 40 years.

Now I don’t know which way the vote will go on June 23 but if on June 24 the majority have voted to remain I believe we will regret it.

I also think that if we do remain in the EU we should have another referendum on whether to dismantle both Houses of Parliament and the civil service?

I don’t see how anyone can justify the billions of pounds these three institutions cost the taxpayer when we are ruled from Brussels.

RAY PLUMB Penketh