WE are continually led to believe that Brexit is some dark abyss with an unknown and uncertain future when we are in fact heading towards the sort of EU we lived in before the Schengen Agreement gave free movement to all and sundry.

And before that is the vision of the EU Commission of a Europe stretching from the Atlantic coast of Ireland to the war-torn borders of the Middle East.

We are paying the salaries of 650 Members of Parliament, plus support staff.

Why on earth should we need an additional upper layer of government based in Brussels?

And please don’t get me going on the proposed new EU headquarters building. More like a palace of excess and a monument to vanity.

When I took the trouble and time to read the Maastricht Treaty twice, little did I realise that its blandness and ambiguity would lead to Jean-Claude Juncker’s vision of Europe.

Only made possible of course by massive subsidy from the UK.

Why should we be subsidising countries like Romania and Bulgaria when we could be helping our own people in areas such as the old coal and steel conurbations, former fishing ports and our rural and fishing communities?

Geoffrey Searstone, Moor Lane, York