I REMEMBER in the period before the EU referendum the Brexit activists claimed and implied enormous benefits including financial if we were to leave the EU.

It seemed likely to me that if the Brexiteers got their way (which they did) then the very next day after the Referendum Article 50 would be triggered and we would depart the EU at the fastest possible speed (shows how naive I am).

Instead it seems that these enormous financial and other benefits do not exist.

What other reason can there be for the delay of nine months in triggering Article 50?

And now it is reported that the cabinet has agreed that there should be a transitional period after the two-year Article 50 notice of perhaps another two years.

This would bring the date to roughly spring 2021.

The only logical reason that I can think of is that the Government now agrees with my view and are attempting to avoid a national disaster.

I am an unrepentant Remainer still believing that Brexit is a national disaster.

K Powdrell, York