RECENT letters from Brexiteers highlight how people who voted Leave seem to deliberately ignore the reality of what they voted for.

Brexit may dominate our politics, but it doesn’t dominate those of the EU, whose countries are getting on with ensuring their economies, which are growing, modernise, unlike ours which is shrinking with rising inflation.

We are, in fact, seen in the EU as a bit of a joke and an irritant.

The people who will be financially worse off after Brexit are not Theresa May, David Davis, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage or Liam Fox, unfortunately it is ordinary people, like the authors of the previous letters and myself and our children and grandchildren.

The UK gave away its economic “power” and much of its influence when it voted to leave the EU.

I find Jean-Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier’s language (what they actually say not what most of our media “decide they said”) to be more measured and realistic than that of our politicians.

Also, I resent being called a Remoaner. I am a passionate British European who like 63 per cent of the UK did not vote to leave the EU.

Helen Webster, Main Street, Fulford, York