THE true cost of leaving the EU is beginning to emerge, with the news that the British taxpayer is to take over the funding of UK farming subsidiaries and research after Brexit.

The cost of this is estimated to be £4.5 billion a year which is already half of the amount that we paid for total EU membership.

There will be no extra money for the NHS out of the contribution savings, as promised by Brexit, because this was another lie.

It was said on many occasions by Remain supporters that there was no economic case for leaving the EU. These revelations are proof of that fact.

Even Nigel Farage now admits that claims about the UK’s contributions to the EU were bogus and wrong.

Latest studies by Price Waterhouse Cooper reveal that it could take until 2030 for the UK economy to recover to where it was before Brexit and jobs will be put at risk in that period.

At the moment we are still feeling the benefits of being full members of the single market.

It is all well and good for Venk Shenoi to quote well-used soundbites such as ‘freedom has no price’ and ‘economists know the price of everything and the value of nothing’.

Try telling that to the thousands of people who could lose their jobs, and therefore their homes, as a result of Brexit.

They will soon tell you what to do with your flowery quotes, Mr Shenoi.

Call me a sore loser but I resent the fact that British voters were hoodwinked by Brexit lies. I am not talking about the dyed-in-the-wool little Englanders who wanted to take back control from Brussels at any price but the ‘undecided,’ who may have been swayed by Brexit’s economic dishonesty.

– True Blue, Tutshill.