• MICHAEL Romberg’s declaration that those who voted leave “…could not have known what they were going to get”, is not an argument: it is an assertion of superiority and is both ironic and arrogant in its assumption that because he was bewildered by the consequences of the referendum everybody else must have been too, (We are culturally part of Europe, August 9).

Remain voters are far too fond of wagging their fingers and telling leave voters why they voted to leave the EU without ever having the courtesy to ask them to speak for themselves.

Those who lost the argument presume to know what is in the minds of other people in the privacy of the polling booth.

For anyone who still requires clarification of why we need to leave the EU, it is, in short, because it is undemocratic and therefore unaccountable to anyone but its own self-serving apparatchiks who appoint each other.

The calculated insularity of its construction locks in corruption and waste and ensures that it is impervious to entreaty by any single member state or political group.

It has demented expansionist plans which cannot be curbed or altered and its currency is a mechanism invented solely for the convenience of the global financial industry, who have used it to asset-strip and destabilise most of southern Europe.

The eastern European countries are only in it for the hand-outs and when these dry up, as they surely will, then they too will disintegrate or leave.

The only reason no plan has yet succeeded is because they have all been torpedoed by those, both here and in the EU, who refuse to accept the decision upon which they were predicated.

As the second largest contributor to all this mayhem the UK urgently needs to unshackle itself from the EU and restore control of our affairs to the time-honoured chaos wrought by our own parliamentarians.

It will inevitably be a bit messy untangling ourselves from 40 years of silt but it will be refreshing when we have done so and the money we save in contributions will compensate for any short term hiccups.

We will not regret it and the EU will probably collapse even more quickly without the UK propping it up than it would have done anyway. That will be a good thing for the whole of Europe.

MARTIN KENNEDY
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