We don’t need to be in the EU to cooperate with European partners.
Wales in Britain must be a sovereign partner of Europe, not a province of the EU, as part of an outward looking global community.
If we leave, nothing immediately changes during the first two years.
Both farm support and?structural funding would then be a matter for the UK Government in consultation with the devolved administrations.
Because the UK is a major net contributor to the EU, more money would be available.
When the EU Commission planned to allocate structural funds for the period 2014-2020, it sought cuts for Wales in the region of 27%.
The UK Government reallocated part of the funding for England to rebalance some of the shortfall.
With Wales out of the EU - future funding would be determined by politicians accountable to the Welsh electorate.
The UK subsidised its farmers before it joined the EU and would do so after we Vote Leave, with the Welsh Government responsible for replacing badly designed EU farm regulations with new policies to help farmers.
The UK Farming Minister made clear that the UK Government would continue to give farmers and the environment at least as much support as they get now.
The Prime Minister has also made that clear.
After all, non-EU countries like Switzerland and Norway actually give more support to their farmers than we do.
The EU is a shrinking market for the UK, with exports of goods and services to the EU falling from 54% of the total in 2006 to 44% today.
Over 60% of Welsh exports are now to non-EU countries.
In 2014, the share of UK goods exports going to countries outside the EU was higher than every other EU member state bar Malta.
The UK/EU balance of trade has favoured the rest of the EU every year since we joined, except 1975.
The UK now has a record trade deficit with the EU.
The UK is the EU’s largest export partner, guaranteeing millions of jobs. It is overwhelmingly in the EU’s interests to agree a friendly UK-EU free trade deal.
As the former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund's European and Research Departments said two weeks ago: when we go back to core principles, "economics is neutral on whether to leave or remain".
In supporting a European federal union, Churchill stressed that Great Britain could never be part of it, stating: "We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed."
It’s time to put sovereignty before the scaremongers.
Democracy before the doom Sayers.
And FREEDOM before fear. It is time to take our United Kingdom back.