I STAND on the Malvern Hills and watch sinister clouds gather over Europe. Dark forces are stirring once again in the East.
In Brussels, the corridors of power appear to echo to the distant sound of a future EU army. Perhaps it’s all in my imagination.
The European Union’s expansionary philosophy of failure should send shivers down all our spines. Did David Cameron return from Brussels waving a signed agreement or just a ‘scrap of paper’?
Chamberlain in 1938 was praised by both sides of the house for bringing ‘Peace to Europe’ yet one year later we were at War with Germany.
What history tells us is that when we want something to be true, we believe it to be true because the alternative is far too scary to comprehend.
The alternative today is not War, but the prospect of the EU changing into The Federal Socialist States of Europe. Should we get it wrong in June our democracy and freedom will be lost forever.
Locked in the EU and shackled to long-term debt, our government uses mass migration to keep wages down. 
If we are unable to break free of the EU then another recession seems almost inevitable.
There is no decision to make, we have no alternative. 
We must leave the EU. The EU must give the British people their freedom, so that we can once again light up Europe in the dark and dangerous days ahead.
LAWSON CARTWRIGHT
Leader Working Families Party

Argument for EU is weak
UNIVERSITY of Worcester vice chancellor David Green’s arguments for Britain remaining in the EU are both incredibly weak and resemble the scare stories regarding trade. 
Just as EU countries are not going to stop trading with us when we quit, we will not reject EU students coming here.
Prof Green confirms this when he states that foreign students are willing to pay £9,000 a year in fees.
He raises the straw man argument that somehow British young people won’t be able to study in Europe. Where is his evidence? Moreover, 132,000 EU students have registered here while the number of British students who go to EU countries is tiny by comparison.
The EU does not give us any funds for scientific research. It’s our money. We send billions to Brussels and we get a little back. It is more efficient to cut out the middleman.
Does the vice-chairman also believe that co-operation on research will suddenly stop? Where does he get these bizarre ideas from? Perhaps he would care to justify himself in public debate. I challenge him.
FRANCIS LANKESTER 
Worcester

This isn’t North Korea
IN REPLY to Maurice Francis (February 24) once again I have to inform you we are living in a city called Worcester, situated in a country named Britain, in the land of freedom and democracy. 
We are not living in North Korea where you have to apologise for living. You attempt to get GB Dipper’s letters banned, censored, in the pretence of where he lives in Leominster. Absolute smokescreen rubbish.
The real reason you want them banned is because he (not all) but mostly, writes anti-EU letters. If he did the opposite and wrote pro EU letters you wouldn’t care less if he wrote them from Lands End, John O’ Groats or even from a slow boat to China.
K HEMMING
Worcester

Outsourcing can be good
I READ a letter by Neil Laurenson, Green councillor, in the Worcester News in which he said that the proposed outsourcing of some council services was a ‘privatisation’. 
I would like to point out that outsourcing and privatisation are two completely different things. 
Privatisation implies the services are to be sold off whereas outsourcing actually involves giving out contracts to private firms in order to provide the service on the council’s behalf. 
The council still maintains control. If outsourcing will provide a better deal for taxpayers then I see no reason why it should not go ahead.
Adam Warner
Worcester

Polar bear abuse shock
I HAVE just read a shocking story about polar bears in Russia, where they are being exposed to such cruelty.
They are trained to be put in circuses, muzzled and made to howl down microphones.  
It’s outrageous. Why don’t animal rights step in and let these animals go back to the Arctic Circle where they belong?
They say the bears are also beaten with pipes if they don’t do what trainers want. No wild animal should be in captivity unless it is threatened by poachers. Why people want to abuse animals is beyond me.
There is far too much cruelty in this world most of it caused by humans. The people behind this cruel act should be brought before the courts and let people decide whether to muzzle them and see how they like to perform in front of people. Shame on the Russian people for letting this happen.
MRS CAROLE ROBERTS
Worcester

Thank you for help, support
PLEASE express my sincere thanks to the doctors, nurses and all other staff of Spring Gardens Health Centre for all their help and support throughout my husband Brian’s illness, always there to support both me and Brian in our hour of need.
JOYCE FISHER
Worcester