I’VE recently received the Government’s propaganda booklet on the EU referendum, produced at a cost of £9 million courtesy of the taxpayer.

It claims to contain ‘the facts’ but contains numerous one-sided halftruths and matters of opinion.

In producing this booklet the Government is conducting the referendum campaign in an unfair manner.

Even the Electoral Commission has criticised its publication.

The Government says that we should all know how it thinks we should vote (even though the Government is in reality divided on the matter), but has created a dangerous precedent.

Can we now look forward to the Government sending us all a booklet at taxpayers’ expense in the run-up to the next General Election telling us its opinion on what would be best for the country and how we should vote?

This is in keeping with David Cameron’s appalling behaviour throughout the referendum campaign.

Last December he was supposedly willing to lead us out of the EU if he didn’t get his way in his negotiations. Several months later, having achieved tiny changes (so pitiful that they’re rarely mentioned now), leaving the EU is supposedly catastrophic for us.

Despite this he refuses to let civil servants work on any contingency plans for if we vote to leave.

This suggests that he doesn’t really believe his outlandish claims, or else he’s being wilfully negligent.

It would be completely untenable, in the event of a Leave vote, for our exit negotiations to be conducted by a government led by him.

Despite his pledge to the contrary I’m confident that if we treat Mr Cameron and the associated political and corporate elite with the disdain which they deserve and vote to regain control of our country, he will soon be gone. Not before time.

KEN HALL Great Sankey