LettersEven if a no-deal Brexit happens, Britain will get along just fine without the corrupt European Union

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A British flag flutters during the March to Leave demonstration in Parliament square in London on March 29. Photo: Reuters

Published: 4:25am, 4 Sep 2019Updated: 4:33am, 4 Sep 2019

It was with wry amusement that I read your editorial (“A no-deal Brexit is in no one’s interest”, August 28) forecasting doom and gloom for the United Kingdom if it had the temerity to leave the European Union without a deal.

It even quoted as gospel the Home Office report outlining possible problems, compiled at least a year ago as a worst-case scenario, as though it had come hot off the presses. Your editorial could well have been written by the former, unlamented, discredited chancellor Philip Hammond or his hapless predecessor George Osborne, both strident Europhiles.

Without going into the many obvious reasons the UK should rid itself of this failing political behemoth, the fact that the country ploughs billions of pounds annually into EU coffers, when the auditing of the EU budget remains surrounded by controversy, should suffice.

No explanation or attempt to investigate this scandal has been made, with one exception. In 2005, the EU’s chief accountant attempted to do just that and was summarily dismissed from her post. What sensible person would invest in a finance company with such a track record?

No sir, the UK will get along just fine trading with the rest of the world and, in fact, with EU countries when they realise on which side their bread is buttered, just as we used to before the British public were misled in voting to join what they believe to be a European common market, a tariff-free trading entity and not a political enterprise whose architects were, and are, intent on subsuming parliaments and destroying national identities to form one vast EUSSR.