MUCH has been made by the ‘In Europe’ supporters and the Home Secretary about the role played by Europe in our security.

A recent Guardian report states: “The failures were outlined by Turkish officials to the Guardian through several documented instances of foreign fighters leaving Europe while travelling on passports registered on Interpol watch lists, arriving from European airports with luggage containing weapons and ammunition, and being freed after being deported from Turkey despite warnings that they have links to foreign fighter networks.”

Given the recent atrocities in Brussels and the revelations coming from Turkey that those charged with security in Europe were totally incompetent in dealing with terrorists deported back to Europe, one wonders whether an organisation made up of 28 sovereign countries can ever manage anything in a unified way.

Decisions made within the EU are based on the lowest common denominator level of acceptance.

The Schengen agreement of unchecked travel across EU’s internal borders is unworkable without strong checks by a common border force.

The EU’s land and sea borders are for all practical purposes indefensible. Britain has a highly developed security system and the channel provides some protection.

Being outside an ungovernable EU offers far more security to Britain than being in.

There is also no conclusive economic case for being in the EU.

Britain’s huge membership fee to the EU is an ongoing drain on public finances.

Unnecessary EU regulations, often gold-plated by the British civil service, are strangling the free enterprise spirit that Britain has been known for in the past.

We will be well rid of this mad Union which is now past its sell-by date.

The acid test is whether if we will join the EU now from scratch. The answer obviously is no.

– Venk Shenoi, Blaisdon.