Ceri Jayes, of Lower Warren Road, Kingsbridge, writes:

The people who I meet who say they will be voting to leave the EU in the referendum on June 23 give the reason that they thought that they were voting for a free-trade area when they voted in 1975, not for the creation of a United States of Europe; or that the Maastricht Treaty was signed without consultation; or that they fear uncontrolled immigration and the pressure that it puts on schools, hospitals and housing; or the loss of sovereignty; or the loss of jobs in the fishing industry and the chemicals and other manufacturing industries; or the wish to trade with the Commonwealth; or the wish to be an independent nation under Her Majesty’s government.

They have sound facts, ­figures, dates and information that can be verified.

Those who say they will vote to stay seem to lack conviction.

They give reasons about ­having friends who live in Spain, or that their children might like to travel, or they say jobs will be lost if the UK leaves the EU because they have ­listened to David Cameron.

I wonder how the German company RWE-owned npower announcement about a loss of 2,400 British jobs last week squares in their thinking?

If there is a case for staying in it, what is it? Can we hear it so that we can weigh up the pros and cons before voting on the direction that our country should take?