I COULD not agree more with Ed Deedigan’s brilliant article on how this country is being given away to foreigners. And it’s not just utilities and other strategic industries that are going but also housing, which is being openly marketed in the Far East to small private buyers purely as an investment, not to live in themselves.

Consequently, single British people, particularly, can barely find a room to live in in London, let alone a reasonable flat. These foreigners are buying properties across the country, causing massive shortages everywhere, let alone driving property prices up.

Chancellor Osborn says that this country is open for business; what he means is that this country is for sale.

It is embarrassing, humiliating and degrading that Cameron and Osborn are grovelling to the Chinese to build power stations that we should be building ourselves.

Our steel industry is being destroyed by green taxes and extortionate business rates. The reason for this is Agenda 21, which is a ‘voluntary’ agreement following the Rio Earth summit in 1992 for industries to be dispersed from developed countries to undeveloped countries.

Global greenhouse gas emissions will simply be transferred from here to there and will probably increase.

Meanwhile, our reliable coal-fired power stations are being closed down one by one, leaving just 1.2 per cent reserve this winter at peak demand. Banks of diesel generators are waiting in reserve and some heavy users are to be asked to throttle back at these times. So we are basically going backwards.

Incidentally, at the time of writing (10pm), coal is providing 27.92 per cent of our electricity while wind is producing just 3.42 per cent. I have seen the latter much lower and, since it is night-time, solar panels will be producing precisely nothing.

To try to save our steel industry, we have a Government Minister going cap-in-hand to Brussels to see if the EU will allow us to temporarily subsidise it. Who is in charge of this country then? Why did we bother to vote in the last general election?

We do not need more houses being built in places where they are not wanted. We need an immediate halt on foreign buyers and force those who have bought property as an investment in the last five years to put them back on the market for the indigenous population.

Finally, we have unfettered immigration leading to the catastrophic overburdening of all our public services, not to mention the effect on our society and culture as a whole.

Never mind the House of Lords, our ruling politicians in the Commons are not fit for purpose. Leaving the EU is now essential for the well-being of this country.

ROWLAND PANTLING, Broomcroft Road, Pewsey