I AGREE entirely with Mrs S Harnby’s letter, Switching Sides, published in The Northern Echo on January 17.

As far as I can see, the only beneficiaries of the European Union are MEPs.

I don’t understand why people are not more vociferous in their opposition to this expensive club.

A recent BBC Radio 4 programme called The Report claimed that, in some parts of Italy, millions of Euros are going straight to the Mafia, with little or no work done on the projects the money was supposed to pay for.

Unsurprisingly, the UK MEP interviewed didn’t know anything about it.

Does nobody care? Except, perhaps, the Italian judge who was murdered.

Colin Hatton, Middlesbrough.