Staying in the EU makes sense
Dear Sir,
With regard to W Elphinston and Alan Langley's letters in the December 2nd and 9th issues of your paper, both p23, it is essential to remember that investment decisions take place over many years as do the effects of them.
We have benefitted enormously from the Foreign Direct Investment of global corporations such as for example Toyota and other car manufacturers over recent years.
This is so that they can take advantage of our highly skilled workforce and gain easy entry into the EU's market of over 500 million in 28 separate countries.
If we left, I am sure over the coming years this investment in our country that provides both jobs and tax income that pays for our pensions, benefits and services would reduce significantly.
Being part of a larger block also means we often gain more advantageous trade arrangements with other countries such as China than smaller countries acting on their own can.
With regard to Alan's penultimate paragraph, one of the advantages of being in the EU is that we can share expensive resources and finally we can still be world leaders from within the EU as recent events such as The Climate Summit and air strikes on Syria have shown.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Peter Hirst
Middlewich