I WAS concerned that your interview with Mr Kinnock failed to mention the EU's failures. The truth about the EU is in the facts not in political hype.

Mr Kinnock talks of progress in the Common Fisheries Policy from which Fleetwood has suffered so badly.

Britain controlled 80per cent of the EU's fishing grounds before we entered the EU. Now we can land only 20per cent of the catch.

More fish are thrown back dead under EU quotas than are landed, creating an environmental disaster. Spanish fishing vessels having exhausted their own stocks are allowed to devastate the fishing grounds around our shores.

Having destroyed our fish stocks the EU is signing agreements with African dictators to plunder their stocks and impoverish their fishermen.

If this is progress, it is about time Mr Kinnock left his office in Brussels and explained it face to face to our suffering fishermen.

Mr Kinnock is the Commissioner responsible for OLAF which investigates EU fraud and mismanagement. This is reported to cost about £5 billion a year of our money. The auditors have refused to sign off the EU accounts for the last 7 years. Is this surprising when all EU employees and MEPs are exempt from prosecution and all EU buildings are exempt from search?

Meanwhile the EU harasses a long line of whistle-blowers.

The three main political parties have promised reform of the EU from within.

They have had 30 years to deliver, during which time we have lost more Independence. The time to say enough is enough has long past. It is time to leave the EU and to spend the £11.884 billion a year we give to the EU on public services or tax cuts at home.

Roy Hopwood, North Promenade, Cleveleys