AS the wheels fall off the Brexit bus and plucky Brexiteers mount frantic attempts to gag the BBC, I am not surprised; the news will only get worse over the coming months.

Even the Leave campaign leader admits Brexit is a mistake.

People carp about the EU’s accounts produced by the European Court of Auditors but note that they do produce audited accounts.

When did the UK government produce any accounts of any kind to show how money was spent, or quantify waste or corruption?

So how much has Brexit already cost us? In bureaucrats’ salaries, in the falling pound, lost jobs, and funding cuts to public services?

How much other government work has been abandoned as the civil service focuses resources on this folly? How much money has David Davis’ department spent? What are the Treasury estimates for our losses so far?

The “take back control” mantra, pursued to its “logical” conclusion, will oblige us to leave the UN, Nato, the Commonwealth, the Olympic Games and the World Cup since, to protect our “sovereignity”, we must surely abandon every agreement, treaty and organisation that we cannot dictate terms to.

Or is this nuttiness still confined to hating the EU?

Christian Vassie, Blake Court, Wheldrake, York