I am genuinely surprised by the high numbers of people who say they are still thinking of voting 'in' at the referendum. Do they really not know what 'in' means?

It will mean accepting all that Brussels can throw at us as our 'masters' in the EU hit us with everything they can. There are no serious doubts that there will be 'punishments' for even daring to suggest that we leave the EU in an attempt to discourage other nations from wanting the same thing.

The cost of membership will rocket as our rebate, seen as unfair by many member states, will go.

Voting for the EU will see our thousand year old legal and justice system, one of the fairest in the world, overruled by the EU at every turn. This is already happening with even our highest courts subservient to those in the EU. Voting 'in' will just accelerate the process.

TTIP will be forced on us leading to US style health care and a virtual end to the NHS (source: Leading NHS cancer specialist Angus Dalgleish), a removal of our food standards allowing GM and "unsafe, contaminated, poisonous and toxic" food into our food chain (source: War on Want) and a declining educational standard as it would allow unqualified teachers into schools amongst much other damage it will cause.

Our national defence will be undone as our Army, Royal Navy and RAF are 'absorbed' into the EU Defence Force (source: Common Defence Policy).

'In' will mean Westminster being reduced to the level of a provincial assembly with few more powers than a current parish council. (source: EU document PE569.777v02-00).

That same document also states that 'in' will mean losing control of our economy, abandoning sterling and accepting the failing euro, along with dismantling what are left of our border controls. David Cameron's 'opt-outs' aren't worth the hot air used to make the promises.

Voting 'in' on June 23rd doesn't mean 'no change', it means surrendering everything we have ever known to a foreign, unelected, undemocratic government which will have the final word over every aspect of our lives. None of this is "Project Fear" or speculation; the bulk of it is taken from the EU's own documents and why the 'in-siders' dare not say much about what a 'remain' vote will mean.

David Howle

Ross-on-Wye