I HAVE been quiet up to now, waiting for official explanations we have been lied to (misled) by the Leavers.

There is a provision in the Treaty of Rome which allows workers from the EU to spend three months in the UK to look for a job, if they are not successful they are no longer eligible for benefits and can be told to leave The UK has chosen not to enforce this part of the law.

In the 1940s every year a labourer from Ireland arrived to live in the farm hay loft.

Crops were sown by machine but then had to be singled by hand, then hay cut and brought in, then barley, oats and finally wheat harvested, all stooked, gathered in, made into ricks, then thrashed – all heavily labour intensive.

Agriculture has always depended on regular migratory labour who follow the seasons.

The problem is that agriculture in west Wales is no longer in need of casual labour now that the potato harvest is diminishing and mechanised.

Arable and dairy are failing.

We are truly in the era of alternative news, we deserve better.

IAN CAMPBELL

Pembroke