NOW we all know, whether we admit it or not, that Brexit is a major problem, with the end result still unknown and hard to predict.

At this stage the negotiations are totally out of control, but even so we are still blatantly being told that the EU need us more than we need them and these soothsayers would have us believe that the EU will have to negotiate new trade arrangements with us at very little cost to our economy. Far too many of us are lost in a world of make believe too scared to face up to consequential realities as the prospect of the cliff edge becomes ever closer.

It may well be that the EU is our biggest customer now and so the argument is that they will still need us when we leave, regardless of trade agreement or not.

The trouble with this scenario is that we are seeing the situation as it is now, not as it most probably will be in the the medium to long term when the services and goods we currently export are sourced not from us, but from those 27 countries still in the EU, able to offer more preferential trade terms than we can.

It is worth remembering that there is very little that we currently export that cannot be found and supplied from outside the UK.

Let nobody be under any illusions that Brexit is anything other than an economic disaster still waiting to happen come March 2019 if we come out of the single market.

JOHN FRAY
London Road
Wheatley