Why are we letting the Leave campaign continue with their lies?

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Vote Leave's claim that we pay £350m to the EU has been criticised (PA)

I am dismayed that the much repeated claim by the Brexit campaign that £350m per week is sent to Brussels, is allowed to continue.

It has been thoroughly debunked as inaccurate and misleading, and the head of the UK Statistics Authority has written to the campaign with that message, but they continue to use the figure, even though they know it is wrong.

Surely it is time that newspapers and other media stopped including it in headlines as a "disputed claim" and started calling it what it is – a lie?

Not only that, but the link is then made to how the UK might better spend that money - for instance we could pay for a new NHS hospital every week. That again is a falsehood, as there is no prospect of "saving" £350m per week, as that is not how much we pay in.

The facts are clear, and the leaders of Brexit are clearly guilty of attempting to mislead (on other issues too). Sadly, I know that many people believe the lies they are being fed. I think we deserve better standards in this debate.

Andrew Fozard
Brighton

Farmers would benefit from Brexit

So far, the Remain campaign has been all about trying to worry people and has rightly earned the title, Project Fear. Part of that fear is not just empty claims but has actually been manufactured.

The BBC seems to be majoring on the concerns of small farmers who are wondering whether they will still get subsidies outside the EU.

They will inevitably gain from the huge savings which will be made by leaving. But the government's failure to reassure them is a heinous way of scaring them into voting Remain. Sickening!

June Warner
Kirk Deighton

Polling stations should stay open until pubs close

In all likelihood there will be a number of people who are delayed for whatever reason and miss the 10pm closure of the polling booths. Under the circumstances would it not be reasonable to extend the opening hours – say until midnight when pubs have closed?

Ian Wingfield
Bamford

There's nothing wrong with being a "little Englander"

The charge of "little Englander" is designed to discomfort and embarrass the recipient (Prime Minister, ITV Tuesday, PMQs Wednesday). But it is a charge that I for one am always prepared to take head-on. I am neither a little nor a big Englander, merely an Englander who wishes to be able to continue living his life immersed in his own culture, with all its foibles and its faults as well as its joys, and not in a melting pot of other people’s cultures, no matter how beneficial that is perceived to be for his own culture.

Edward Thomas
Eastbourne

How will we cope with a small margin in the EU referendum?

The referendum majority is going to be very small, probably, if the polls are right, under 5 per cent either way. In fact it may be as little as one per cent or even less. It could actually be as low as one vote although that is, admittedly, unlikely. But, and these things are possible if not probable, it could even be a dead heat!

Just how large does the majority have to be before the result is considered decisive? Leaving or remaining on the basis of a very small majority will surely cause more problems than we have at present.

Given that the Tories are split approximately fifty-fifty, the civil war in the Tory Party will intensify. Both sides will resent being dragooned into a decision they have campaigned against. What will the government do then? Its legislative program will be compromised while the hostilities and the bitterness continue. It will certainly be the only issue defining the rest of this parliament. (However long that might be.)

If he loses, will David Cameron resign and call a general election? Or will he have another referendum in the hope of getting the right result a second time?

These are important questions and no one is talking about them. I fear that by ignoring them, the country is walking headlong and blindly into a disaster.

Chris Payne
Lipa City, The Philippines

Immigration can be good, but people must work

Some of the most successful people in our country are immigrants. They come here, work hard and make a success. My father was one such person. He never took a penny from the UK government, paid a lot of tax and died before he drew his pension. Another country paid for his education. But the EU is not about this.

The EU allows anyone who wishes to live anywhere in the EU. I emigrated 12 years ago to Slovenia. I sold my property in the UK and took all my money there, where I started a business, paid taxes and workers' wages. I paid builders to work on my property. When the recession killed my business, that country would not offer me a penny in help. Their advice to me was to go home. Which I did and resumed work in the UK. That made sense to them.

But the UK does not work like that. It is not free movement of labour at all, it is free movement of people. The UK is seen as a soft touch. Why are Albanians taking risks to come here? They could stay in France. Because once they are here, they can get lost. There is no requirement for identity papers to live here. The only solution is for us to leave whilst we have the chance to get out. It can only get worse as more countries join, not just Turkey, Serbia waiting in the wings etc.

All countries with jobless people desperate to find somewhere else for a better life. Yes immigration can be good, but people must come to work, there must be no soft touch, no sponging. Let’s leave and make our own rules.

Diana Evans
Harrogate