LAST week the IMF (International Monetary Fund) joined all other economic forums in warning of the dangers of Brexit.

Those supporting it immediately rubbished this forecast by saying that the IMF had said heaven would fall if we didn’t join the Euro in the 1990s. This is not true.

The IMF was very careful in its report on monetary union, identifying many areas of concern that would have to be addressed before the UK should join.

It seems to me blatantly obvious that the day after a Brexit vote there will be a run on the Pound and probably on the Euro as well.

Anyone with savings would do well to have them safely converted to dollars before the June vote. Anyone not seeing this is fooling themselves.

It is difficult to judge how damaging this would be but as I live on a fixed pension the prospect is daunting.

It is worrying that all major independent financial organisations have made similar projections.

So too leaders of the Commonwealth, the USA, NATO, most British politicians and the security services.

We’d be daft not to take into account what they have said.

Of course those arguing for Brexit must also be heard but I look around and hear few voices of stature apart from the mainly right-wing and foreign-owned Press.

Lord Lawson argues for an ‘out’ vote forcefully but will he be moving home ‘from France’ if things go ‘belly up’?  

Many others are on the far right and seem an unpalatable lot.

They receive support from the French National Front and Donald Trump. Not a good sign.

To be told that President Obama should mind his own business or that the IMF is just wrong is not good enough and portrays shallow thinking.

Of course, there are a small group of pro-Brexit economists, including Professor Patrick Minford of Cardiff University.

He wrote in The Sun a few weeks back that outside the EU “it seems likely that we would mostly eliminate manufacturing, leaving mainly industries such as design, marketing and high-tech. But this shouldn’t scare us”.

I think those involved in manufacturing and their families in the Forest of Dean may well disagree.

– Mark Parry, Coleford.