Over the last two weeks letters re. Brexit or Remain have indicated some puzzling points of view. H. Jones aged 23 (readers' times, April 14), appears not to be aware of the free flow of job-seekers throughout Europe and indeed the entire world, over generations and even centuries. Leaving the EU will not change that. His foreign friends will similarly be assured of the chance of a job here as has always been the case.

Maja Storey refers to Britain`s history of welcoming refugees (readers' times, March 24), and seems to think that leaving the EU will put a stop to such generosity of spirit. Leaving will make no such change. Welcoming refugees from tyranny is one thing; the present situation is altogether different and bears no comparison to those of past decades and centuries. It is the vast numbers of immigrants that create a massively different problem. It is pertinent however, to be aware that the vast majority of those millions flocking to Europe are coming from a raft of countries, most of which are not subjecting their citizens to persecution. Those coming here are mainly economic migrants. This country faces huge problems with finding school places, the rocketing immigrant birth-rate, health provision and massive house-building needed to cope with such vast numbers. Chancellor Osborne`s patently stupid equation, as an attempt to terrify the population into voting remain, was itself dependent on a mind-blowing increase of three million more immigrants in the next few years. This will further exacerbate the dilemma. Unfortunately, Marcia`s wistful dreaming will not provide for this vast influx, however unfortunate. The proposition that millions of people can migrate as and when they so desire is ridiculous.

If the EU had remained as a free-trading community of sovereign states it would still be universally welcomed. As an ever-increasingly federal organisation, governed by the European Commission, an un-elected body of bureaucrats, with no connection or concern for people here, it surely has no validity to us as a democracy.

Ron Hill

Leominster