WERE I to leave my golf club I would need to pay my subscriptions to the date of my departure.

Having left, I would not expect to receive a letter from the secretary demanding I keep paying the club money to enable the cutting of fairways and greens to continue.

Similarly, nowhere in the Treaty of Rome does it state that were a member to leave the organisation that member would be subject to a heavy financial penalty.

The 100 million euro divorce demand Britain is being asked to pay is a figure concocted by faceless officials of a wasteful monolith in Brussels.

Our simply reply, couched in suitable diplomatic language, should remind them of an age old English tradition exercised at Christmas, namely what we do to turkeys.

Peter Rickaby, West Park, Selby