• THE EU are threatening a punishing financial assault on the UK for wanting to get out.

The sum of €60billion has been bandied around. The UK has contributed £9-10 billion per year to the EU. And yet, the EU have never signed off any account for the past 20 years. What kind of firm would get away with that?

It is increasingly obvious the EU is a sham, and the vast sums that we and other members have lavished on it were no more than protection money. How else would you explain this total absence of accountability?

Commissioners seemed to be able to ignore the normal accounting imperatives so easily overlooked by the EU.

Those heading the EU have had, and still have, tremendous power over each and every person in the UK or indeed any of the citizens of the 28 countries they, so far, control. Yet we do not elect those at the top.

A handful of people have the exclusive right to propose laws; they do not have to give an account of where the vast sums of money we hand over to them go; our say in any matter is minimal, yet, the EU’s decisions are final and override UK laws.

Let them take the UK to court. At last we would be entitled to see the account for all the money the EU have gathered over the years and what it is they did with it. Only then would a judge be able to make a sensible decision whether or not we need to pay anything at all. Who knows we might even be due some reimbursement for misuse of the funds?

So there should not be any agreement whereby our PM and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker discuss terms. No account, no money owed. Period. If the EU decided they did not want to do business with us then so be it.

Don’t be alarmed by the crazy statements put out by EU leaders. They are simply showing off their true nature. Be glad we will soon be freed from such malevolent controlling power.

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