Britain needs to stay on course and exit the EU

Sir, – European Council president Donald Tusk says Britain can still change its mind and abandon Brexit (October 25).

The European Union is in turmoil and desperate.

Voters across Europe are rejecting everything Brussels stands for.

Austria is poised for a coalition government with an anti-immigration policy.

Scandinavia, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic all are demanding that immigration is halted.

Catalonia is now a festering sore to Spain.

Italy’s anti-establishment Five Star movement is the country’s most popular party and it wants to ditch the euro while two of Italy’s richest regions, Lombardy and Veneto, want greater autonomy from Rome.

The UK is the second-highest net contributor to the EU, at £8.6 billion, so one can see why the EU mandarins are anxious that we stay.

After all, their salaries, pensions and bloated lifestyles are at risk.

France, third on the list, pays only half of Britain’s contribution.

Only 12 countries contribute, with Cyprus lowest at 0.02 billion euros.

The other 16 take, with Poland the highest, receiving 9.48 billion euros.

It is time to escape from this unaccountable, corrupt, undemocratic and mega-expensive dictatorship. Clark Cross.

138 Springfield Road, Linlithgow.

Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, said the UK can change its mind on Brexit. PA.