BELIEVE what you want when we are told we one of the richest countries in the world.

If we are so rich why are so many ordinary folk living off credit cards?

The rich have got richer and richer by investing their money in property to rent out at high prices. They have not invested in factories to produce much-needed items.

There are more self-employed people than ever – less tax is going into the coffers.

What will happen when all the low-paid jobs are filled? More self-employed having their money made up?

More and more unskilled people can come to Britain under EU rules – something has got to give.

How many unskilled people do we need? They will have to live somewhere.

We are in a time when the gap between rich and poor is the biggest in history.

The rich can please themselves as to where they live, ordinary folk can't.

We have been in the EU for 40 years now but it is not the ideal we signed up to.

We now import more goods from them than we export. How do the sums add up?

Would Greece have been any poorer if they hadn't joined the EU. I doubt it – will they ever pay off their debts.

We are playing a 'house of cards' game and our wealth is funded by smoke and mirrors, just to make ourselves look rich.

The Tories are in for another five years. They won't be able to blame anyone else if they fail.

– OAP, Forest of Dean.