IN HIS view from the Senedd our AM, Vaughan Gething, rightly points out that Wales is a net beneficiary from the EU, but his fellow Labour politicians have left it late in the day to combat the way in which leading Brexiters have laid all the blame on immigration for rising house prices that result from their own policy failures, not only in housing, but also in education and health care.

Their deceitful campaign has resulted in this referendum degenerating into a racist plebiscite that scapegoats the very people who have rescued our economy from the worst effects of an ageing population and our lamentable lack of skills due to our underfunded exam, factory schools.

Sports Direct is just one example of the degradation of labour arising from allowing large companies to bypass the taxation levied on high street retailers through business rates. Our high street has largely survived by turning to food outlets and this could be a way forward for Turner House, which could offset the running costs of staying open as a permanent art and photographic gallery through an arts cafe supplied by the farmers’ market producers.

Margaret Phelps

Raisdale Gardens

Penarth