Shropshire Star

Letter: Fears over job losses

Jobs in Telford depend on EU membership. The EU referendum is important to everyone in the UK. But it's particularly important here in Telford.

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Whether we like it or not, our economy depends on companies that have come here because of the UK's membership of the EU. American and Japanese businesses are here because we are their gateway to 28 European economies and 500 million European consumers, the biggest customer base in the world, and French and German businesses are here because we're equal partners in the single market.

We need to have very powerful reasons to vote to leave the EU because it is estimated up to a thousand jobs will be lost here in Telford.

I haven't heard any fact based case to leave made yet.

Bill McClements, Apley

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