MADAM,

With the unpleasant comments last week by Mr Juncker, and the unauthorised and anti-British leaks to a German newspaper, it is now absolutely clear that our Brexit negotiations - which we had still hoped to complete in an amicable atmosphere - are to be entered into in the utmost bad faith by the European Union.

Mrs May has shown a robustness in her response, and I suppose we should still at least start negotiations, but this will most probably prove fruitless, as the other side will use tactics of obfuscation and delay to frustrate us. At this point we should just walk away, and cease all payments - apart from honouring already accepted ongoing costs - which should not be anywhere near the 50, 60 or 100 billion euros demanded (with no foundation in law or reality.) As this organisation cannot produce audited accounts, how can anyone rely on their fanciful figures?

Even now we have remainers who refuse to accept how corrupt and pathetic an organisation we are leaving. Why do they wish to chain us to a body which is moribund, and may well not exist - certainly in its present form - in ten years’ time? It is clear that an organisation set up through German remorse at having waged war on French soil three times in 75 years (do not forget the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/1) and to assuage French pride, has over the years become corrupted into a German-led coup to govern and bully the rest of Europe.

We had a world-dominating empire for between 100 and 150 years, (within living memory) and certainly do not need to cling to the apron strings of the EU, which cannot even come up with the first idea about how to solve the problems besetting its members.

I would say that a desire still to be under the political and juridical yoke of the EU is profoundly unpatriotic, and these people should, rather than agitating to change a decision which is firm, get behind our government and give it all the support it needs to make the best deal for Britian, and, above all, just wake up.

Richard Wilson

(Highfield Close)