Spend export fees on fixing our NHS

I WRITE in support of Paul Blundell (May 7) when he stated how we would be better off financially after leaving the EU. During the period 2016 to 2020, we are paying a staggering £13.9 billion a year. It was reported that EU membership 2021 to 2027 would increase to an annual bill of £22.4 billion – that’s equivalent to £431.7million per week – if Brexit was cancelled. That’s a weekly total of £431.7 million – this is a increase of 34 per cent! These stats Paul Blundell could not know of, as Change Britain made them public on the day his letter was printed.

The likes of Vince Cable and all the others in the band of fellow remainers must all be willing for Joe Public to pay any price to be financially compromised by the EU.

If the UK cannot find an agreement on outstanding issues that the EU is stalling on, then we should go to World Trade Organisation rules which on most goods would be a six per cent fee. As the EU exports far more to us than we do to them, this additional money would help sort out our NHS by funding at grassroots levels (as long as a ban is imposed on appointing any more new managers – a move that will destroy any benefit).

The IMF have reported since the Brexit vote that there will be little growth in advanced countries for British exports in the next 20 to 30 years and the growth areas will be in newly developing countries, so we need to be free to agree trade agreements with these in order to pay our way in the world. The EU took six years to agree a trade agreement with Canada, as all member states had to be consulted several times. If we are free from these restrictions then one-to-one agreements could be done in a few weeks, vastly speeding up the process, so helping our factories and service industries by creating many jobs; through state taxation on profits gained, the government be able to fix the many roads that are full of potholes, and increase spending on infrastructure, such as new and improved rail links.

This will help the regions get hold of funding to make them more prosperous that in the past London and the South East has made sure its area had priority over. Paul Hillock Stoke Green