IN THE Swindon Advertiser of March 23, it looked like Greg Heathcliffe was riding the same ‘myth buster’ wagon as Bill Williams, and I think the wheels will come off.
Let me say, when using the word ‘fact’ to add weight to an argument writers should check that they are facts.
Greg Heathcliffe begins his ‘facts’ with one million jobs lost since we joined EU? Then, I assume where he thinks they were lost, he follows with:
(EU) Wiped out shipbuilding: In 1958 shipbuilding was my first job as an apprentice, long before the EU. I can say from personal observation the Japanese and German ship building industries were destroyed in the Second World War. We helped them build new hi-tech yards, while we continued to use 19th century equipment. Actual FACT.
Train building: Thatcher closed the GWR, then sold the space to Tarmac and the manufacturing company to Germany. Actual FACT.
Chemicals: Before the EU, many companies moved to countries which offered little protection to their workers. Chemicals are dangerous work, remember Bhopal in India? Actual FACT.
Textiles: The entrepreneurs had taken textiles off-shore even before I started work, well before the EU. Actual FACT.
Mining: Mine closures are part of the process. 
But Thatcher closed this whole industry just to destroy the NUM, then sold it to the USA. Actual FACT.
Steel: Thatcher also sold this industry. Actual FACT.
Chocolate: The Cadbury family sold their own business to Nestlé, who moved it to Holland, where they live I presume.
You missed out the car industry, now owned by Japanese and German companies who believe in UK workers and long-term investment; unlike our square mile.
I have to ask all of the Outers, why has Boris bought water cannons when the Home Secretary said he can’t use them in the UK? 
Imagine him with a free hand in government; Victorian values would appear to be heaven. 
Who in their right mind would jump into a black hole with Boris?    
MIKE SPRY
Mayfield Close, Nythe, Swindon