Escape from EU

After hearing the state of the union address by Jean-claude Juncker, I am so glad that Britain voted to leave.

Juncker’s plans for the future of the union should cause other members to be in a state of alarm. These plans for major reform amount to Europe becoming a one-country state with its own unelected commission consisting of a president and finance and defence ministers with its own army, something the Remain camp told us would never happen.

In the same speech, after declaring all those plans, he claimed with sour grapes in his mouth that Britain would regret leaving the EU and that after Brexit the wind was back in their sails – exactly, and they are heading straight for the rocks .

I am so glad we are not going to be on that ship, with the storm of change the EU would lead us in to. GORDON KENNEDY Simpson Square, Perth The European Union likes to tell us that they regret we are leaving the EU. They also tell us that we will also regret leaving.

The EU is livid that any state could have the temerity to leave their wonderful Utopia. Hell hath no fury, etc.

There are some things that we won’t regret, such as the £8 billion we pay each year to the European Union, and that undesirables hopefully will get no further than the French border.

We can only wonder if Germany will regret the 350,000 cars they will not be selling to the United Kingdom, or that France will not regret the 150,000 cars or the 50 per cent of their champagne that will not be wending its way over the Channel.

Nigel Farage made the point that if the EU had only given member states control of their borders then there would be nothing to regret, as there would be no need for a referendum.

We are not going to get any favours from the EU and we should tell them that we want access to the Single Market and control of our borders, and we are not paying any more money until we have some sort of agreement.

We should also advise the European Court of Justice that we do not accept their authority.

JAMES MACINTYRE Clarendon Road, Linlithgow I imagine that Jean-claude Juncker’s outlining of his wish to force even more EU centralisation following Brexit must be causing palpitations at SNP HQ.

No more can they claim that a separate Scotland joining the EU (in their dreams, with the massive deficit Scotland has created) equals independence.

There would be no low Scottish corporate tax and joining the euro would be compulsory. Ireland, for one, will be kicking and screaming at that, but hey! they wanted to join and now they have to grin and bear it.

Maybe the SNP will have to find something else to do. How about sorting out health, education, transport, food banks, wind farms and all the other things they haven’t been doing for the last decade?

ANDREW H N GRAY Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh