A MOTION in Parliament on October 13 to decrease the UK funding to the EU budget was opposed by most of our local MPs in Oxfordshire.

In effect, our MPs have agreed to give the EU extra UK taxpayers’ money – a 5.8 per cent increase, which would supply us all with an extra 6,000 doctors, 15,000 police officers, and 22,000 soldiers.

Just as importantly, students face huge increases in tuition fees, while everyone else suffering cuts of 25 to 40 per cent in services and benefits.

Taxpayers’ money is being frittered away in a foreign land when our navy and air force is being rapidly disbanded.

Let’s face it, UKIP is the party of the Commonwealth.

Citizens of Third World countries do not choose to settle in England willingly.

Their countries have been starved of trade since we turned our attention to the EU.

The sensible alternative is to offer trade, not aid.

With positive lateral thinking, there is more than one solution to this, and any other, problem.

JOHN MADEN Montague Road Botley Oxford