EU exit and UK jobs

The letter from Charles Kennedy and others ( 30 January ) confuses our membership of the EU with our access to the single market. We could retain the latter without the former because: 1. We have 3m jobs exporting to the EU but it has 4.5m jobs exporting to us. We are its largest client. 2. The EU has free-trade agreements with 63 countries worldwide and another 63 on the way, so why not with us, on satisfactory terms? 3. Switzerland, not in the EU, exports three times more per capita to the EU than we do. 4. Only 9% of our GDP goes in trade with the EU (in deficit), 11% goes to the rest of the world (in surplus), and 80% stays in our domestic market. Yet Brussels overregulation strangles all 100% of our economy, and handicaps our exports to the countries of the future. Leaving the EU would create jobs, and restore our democracy. Lord Pearson Lord Stoddart Lord Palmer Lord Stevens Lord Vinson Lord Willoughby The Earl of Liverpool Douglas Carswell MP John Cryer MP Mark Reckless MP Philip Davies MP Austin Mitchell MP Philip Hollobone MP David Nuttall MP Kate Hoey MP Gordon Henderson MP Kelvin Hopkins MP Graham Stringer MP