On Thursday I will be voting for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.
We should spend our money on our priorities. We send £367 million every week to Brussels. That’s enough money to build a brand new hospital every week. It’s half England’s schools budget and four times our science budget. We should spend our money on our priorities like the NHS, not the EU.
Let’s take back control over our borders. At the moment a third of a million Europeans come here every year – that’s equivalent to three times the size of Crawley and putting pressure on infrastructure like rail. We can’t stop criminals coming here from Europe and we can’t deport terror suspects because the European Court is in charge.
The risky and one-way option is voting to stay in the EU. A vote to remain means that Brussels will take more power and money every year – this is the real threat to jobs and security. It will mean bailing out the euro the next time it goes wrong. The EU’s migrant crisis is out of control and it plans to allow in more countries like Turkey, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. It means a growing strain on public services like the NHS, school places, and housing.
We should be able to kick out the people who make our laws. Half of our laws are now made by EU politicians in Brussels who we never voted for. The EU is good for those who’ve already got power and money like the big banks – it isn’t good for the millions of ordinary working people. We have very little say in the EU - they don’t listen to us. The Eurozone has a permanent majority in the EU voting system. Every time we have tried to stop a new EU law we have been defeated.
Let’s take back control over our economy and trade. The EU has too much control over our economy. Only 5% of businesses export to the EU but 100% are caught by EU red tape. If we take back control we can run our economy in the interests of millions of small businesses and entrepreneurs. We will also be able to take back control over trade so that we can do deals with fast growing countries like China and India – this will help business create more jobs. The EU has failed to agree a trade deal with the world’s ten biggest economies. The UK should be free to use our unique global links.
This is our only chance to take control.