SIR – Most of your correspondents who want us out of the EU make only generalised points about farming, fishing, red tape etc. But when voters are asked to think about specifics, the arguments are far less clear cut.

Nigel Farage discovered this to his cost through his failure to become MP for Thanet East. Kent was – and probably still is the Garden of England – where agriculture involves the growing of produce that can only be harvested through backbreaking manual labour.

In my early days, this came from the families of the Kentish people who turned out in their thousands to pick and pluck anything from strawberries through hops, potatoes, cherries, apples, pears and vegetables of all sorts and sizes.

Now however the locals are not interested in the pittance offered by farmers so it falls to workers from mainly eastern Europe to do the hard graft.

Add to this the financial support provided by the Common Agricultural Policy and it is not difficult to see why the numbers who benefit directly or indirectly from Kentish agriculture are rather less keen to see the source of casual labour curtailed and CAP subsidies ended.

Mr Farage didn’t and paid the price.

Brian Holmans, Langley Road, Bingley