"TRUE cost of the EU", read the headline to Mark Starr's response to D Margrett (Letters, Saturday, January 29).
His letter claimed that according to the Government's Office for National Statistics, Britain's annual EU membership cost £11bn or £30m a day.
While I do not doubt his information, his figures are misleading. This should be compared with the EU's subsidies, which we receive, or Britain's 80 per cent trade in Europe as claimed by Digby Jones of the CBI.
A Britain outside the EU could not possible sustain her present economic status.
In the present global trade economic climate, it is becoming very hard for individual countries to find new markets. Where in the world, is Britain going to make good an 80 per cent trade loss with Europe?
As for "Freedom to do what we want bites the dust yet again" claimed in Mark Starr's other letter, it is worth bearing in mind that freedom without responsibility will result in chaos.
No doubt, during the forthcoming General Election, political parties will be courting Rupert Murdoch, as some sort of a modern-day kingmaker, to back their particular manifesto with his vast media power.
Only a strong European Union can check or thwart America or Murdoch's imperialism.
L SPITERI, Worcester
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