Val Gibbons, of Seymour Drive, Dartmouth, writes:

MP Sarah Wollaston ruined my day. In 2010, when stood on my doorstep, she was for Remain but hoped we could change the European Union to suit us better. She had years to learn, from the inside, enough to convert to Brexit’s side.  

Last week, she reverted to her original decision, MP Sarah Wollaston in EU U-turn, Chron­icle, June 17.  Fair enough: she won’t be the first to bat backwards and forwards.  

We can all see benefits and disadvantages to UK membership of the EU… but this is most certainly not the trading club for which I voted in 1975. Successive politicians convinced me that it was to be an elite agreement among half a dozen or so neighbouring countries with similar fiscal bases.

That was the biggest lie of the lot – a voting majority fell into the cobweb!  Now is our chance to struggle free.

Dr Wollaston took exception not to the untruths which we hear all the time from the Remain campaign but to the Leave side’s untruth, namely the future billions to be given to the NHS.  

Like Dr Wollaston, and probably millions of others, I have considered that side-of-the-bus claim to be lunacy but I need to point out that the Brexit supporters who are most closely connected with that silliness are the big guns of the Tory Party.  

Nigel Farage, and UKIP in general, have been sidelined in this referendum campaign and cannot, in all fairness, be painted ‘Boris Blue’ in this.  

Taxpayers’ millions – including tax from my pension – funded the Remain brochure which has long since been proved to be based on wishful thinking.  Was that fair?  Not at all, and there could be a long list here of questionable activity.

Will Dr Wollaston now transfer her affiliation from her party?

Independent MPs do very well, I’m sure.

Forgive me for feeling aggrieved that, after the Freedom Association and UKIP’s decades of campaigning for the UK’s exit from the undemocratic EU, and following all the unfair and vile insults and claims of racism from Prime Minister Cameron and the Conservatives, as well as Gordon Brown’s side and the Lib Dems, Dr Wollaston’s being upset by the ‘NHS millions lie’ is a very poor, insignificant and unconvincing reason for changing her mind for a second time with regard to the vote.

This really does not make sense. It’s not all about the NHS which, we all know, will be stretched dreadfully by further migration. Schools? Housing? Migrants, future pension rights? Enough!

Meanwhile, as we all approach this EU referendum next Thursday, whether you are a convinced insider, outsider or neither yet, do your country a favour, please, by watching Brexit the Movie at local screenings or online.

I shall say no more about it, other than that it will be one hour and 11 minutes that will open your eyes.

For decades, I believed that we, the public, had been given no hints prior to the 1975 referendum that the EU was destined to be a United States of Europe. Not quite so.

Looking back lately at old film footage of debates that were then being televised, I can see that it was there if we had looked for it.  Why didn’t those of us who voted ‘yes’ see it at the time?  

In 1975, I had a young family who were not yet at school, and was studying in preparation for a teachers’ training course once the girls were in full-time education.  

Just like the vast majority of young people around the country now, I had ‘more pressing things to do’ than to sit watching folk arguing.   

I have had a long time to regret not knowing the full facts ... but then, we plebs weren’t intended to know them anyway.  

If you watch the film and agree with its content, please persuade others because, quite honestly, we owe it to them.