Brexit is not about money

THE Chancellor’s view that we didn’t vote in the referendum to ‘make ourselves poorer’ is misjudged.

If economics had trumped sovereignty, Remain would have won the vote. The fact that it didn’t in the face of all the economic scaremongering proves that for most voters money is secondary to being able to run our country as we see fit.

We are leaving the single market, so there will be no tariff-free access. We expect a Brexit that restores our country as an independent and fully self-governing democracy. JONATHAN CASTRO,

Guildford, Surrey. EUROPEAN leaders are getting together to divide up the Brexit prize. Who’ll take financial services? Who can own the aerospace industry? Where will the universities move? What about car manufacturing?

A business’s only loyalty is to its shareholders and customers. They will locate themselves in the country that serves their need for profit. That will be in the heart of the marketplace, not on the peripheries.

The European governments want some of that revenue through taxation and they’ll do anything they can to bring industry to their countries, with tax-free status for a couple of years and discounted rents and rates.

If you really think there will be a deal that will favour the UK outside of the EU, you’ll be very disappointed.

the asset-stripping will start very quickly after March 2019 if we don’t act now.

T. HOWARTH, London SW3.