IN his letter to you in the August 28 edition, Tom Atkinson tells us that he wanted his letter to be factual and non-political. He then goes on to give us an extract from the UKIP manifesto. 

Then on a factual level, he fails to include in his population growth figures, the biggest single contributor, ie the fact that we are all living longer.

Mr Atkinson  would have us believe  that, if we left the EU and  curbed immigration, this would suddenly  make the UK wealthy  enough to fund everything properly  and all our problems would be history.

Somehow I don’t think so. If only it were that simple.

– Dizzy, Chepstow.