TODAY’S EU Referendum is not so much about “taking back control” from Brussels, but also from a “rich elite” of “zillionaires.”

So argued Douglas Carswell as he pounded the streets of Clacton yesterday afternoon delivering the last of four leaflets in four weeks for Vote Leave.

His view stems from weeks of door-knocking, talking to voters on the street, and public meetings in Jaywick, Frinton and Holland-on-Sea.

“Overwhelmingly, people in Clacton want to leave. They don’t like a bunch of rich powerful so-and-sos continuing to run everything to their advantage,” he said.

“Some commentators in London see immigration as a big issue. Immigration is important. This issue is trumping that, it is ‘who do these people think they are?”

Mr Carswell cites chief executives of the banks, EU Commissioners and “multi-zillionaires telling us what’s right.”

Launching his own Brexit campaign in Jaywick two months ago, Mr Carswell warned of “powerful, vested interests” and “an enormous government machine” against him and fellow Brexiteers.

“It’s been incredible hard work fighting this,” continued the MP.

The government alone had spent £9.3 million on glossy leaflets promoting Remain, more than the Brexiteers are allowed to spend.

“The entire machinery of the state has been used against us,” he said.

But what about all those ‘experts’- the IMF, the OECD and others who warn of economic catastrophe should Brexit happen?

“They are run by a rich elite. None of them saw the banking crisis. They are the people who caused the banking crisis. Twenty years ago they wanted us to join the Euro,” the Mp continued.

“It’s definitely us against the political elite. ‘Britain, come to heel’ they are saying. If we take back control, public policy would be made by people who answer to the public not people like George Osborne or Peter Mandelson,” he said.

“The Remain campaign is funded by Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. They have buckets of champagne on ice in the hope that we stay. We are being bullied into voting Remain.”

And where was Mr Carswell on Tuesday when UKIP leader Nigel Farage wowed the crowds in Clacton and Harwich, launching a poster on Clacton Pier?

Instead of being with his leader, Clacton’s MP was campaigning in Frinton, waiting a day before pressing the flesh around Clacton town centre again.

“After posters were unveiled last week, I did not want to be around any poster unveilings,” Mr Carswell said, referring to the controversial ‘breaking point’ poster that critics deemed ‘racist.’

Instead of joining the UKIP-favoured Leave.EU campaign, which launched the controversial poster, plus the one on Tuesday, Mr Carswell has campaigned with the official Vote Leave group, led by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.

“It’s got nothing to do with Vote Leave. Posters like that don’t win votes!”