IT'S too much, isn't it? Council Tax has risen by around 40 per cent in the last few years, but services are dwindling.

Nationally, the health service is in crisis and education is not far behind. Where does all the money go?

Well, I don't know where it all goes, but I do know where huge amounts have been going for too many years - the EU.

What I find so strange is the lack of information about this expenditure. When successive governments have been increasingly open about expenditure on public services at home, why do they keep so quiet about the amount sent into the EU funds? I believe there is a large ostrich element at large.

However, there is also a large number of people who are aware of how much the EU plans are undermining our economy. They are forming groups and political parties, one of which I am a member of.

It's almost to late, but I am so concerned we may be stealthily guided into Europe through lack of information that I am compelled to start speaking out, as a member of the UK Independence Party, on those issues which affect everyone closest to home.

JEANETTE SHEEN, Brook Farm Drive, Malvern.