FORTY-three years of a negative relationship with no benefits.

After 43 years you would think the benefits of EU membership would be overwhelming.

But no the whole 43 years has been nothing more than an economic disaster, a one-sided relationship that has robbed us of money, wealth, jobs and liberty, and the long term negative effects of the centrally planned disaster are now even more overly evident as we face voting on its retention.

The EU is nothing more than a failing undemocratic customs union that has not had its accounts signed off for 20 years.

It is run by unelected bureaucrats who have convictions for embezzlement, fraud, lying on oath, and who are banned from holding public office.

The UK pays in a whopping £55 million a day, of which we are given back £24 million a day to be spent on EU directives.

Plus access to just six per cent of the global population, when we access the other 94 per cent for free.

Only 10 per cent of all UK businesses actually trade with the EU, the other 90 per cent don’t.

The jobs, production and wealth lost due to EU interference in our economy and lives is breathtaking.

The common agricultural policy is another EU disaster that artificially props up food prices, which distorts the market and free trade in food stuffs.

This not only costs us money through our EU contributions but costs the average family an extra £20 a week in shopping.

This country needs to take back the controls of our destiny and economy and stop giving away our rights to foreign powers that have been dictating our fate before it’s too late.

So I write to implore to every right thinking Englishman to step forward on June 23 and reject the corrupt, fraudulent, misguided and rotten relationship that this country has been saddled with for 43 long years.

DIANE SANSON High Legh