‘The situation in the EU is on a knife edge’

FURTHER to my letter in last week’s paper, before some clever clogs points out I got my numerical facts wrong I write to correct my error.

The UK divorce bill from the EU is up to £39billion, not million – even better for our economy, also there is an annual saving of our £12billion contribution, the cost of being a member state.

There have been warnings in the press this week about UK flights being grounded after a no deal

Brexit as UK based airlines may lose licences – really???

So the EU are happy to lose our millions or is it billions of pounds of business then, they don’t mind losing all the trade and more importantly they are happy for no UK citizens to visit and spend millions of pounds each year visiting their member states on holidays? I think not!

They also warn of huge tailbacks on motorways leading to UK ports, financial banking problems, lack of co operation in sharing crime intelligence but it is NOT a one way problem, anything that affects the UK will in reverse affect the EU.

So it is as much their problem as it is ours and is therefore in both the EU and the UK’S interests to iron out all the issues to a mutually satisfactory conclusion. Failure to do so will affect the UK but will also affect the EU in equal proportions, do people honestly believe member EU states will allow this to happen costing them millions of euros?

The situation in the EU is also on a knife edge, unelected leaders in Brussels are at loggerheads with elected leaders in Poland, Hungary and Italy over various issues particularly immigration policy.

Any or all of these countries could at some stage vote to leave the EU because of how it is run.

The EU’S so called triumph in keeping Greece afloat rings hollow when you consider that 40% of its people are unemployed, a third of its population now live in poverty, one in five families can’t afford to pay for rent or electricity and most of its brightest brains have fled the country. If no UK planes could land there after Brexit, it would be totally catastrophic and as tourism is their main income would undoubtedly bankrupt them for good.

Finally, I hope you Remainers read John Emery’s letter in last week’s paper he makes many relative and factual points.