THE true cost of Brexit is beginning to emerge.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his Autumn Statement, has made it plain that Brexit is going to stop this government from balancing the books by 2020, which it was on course to achieve.

The Office of Budget Responsibility, on whose figures the Chancellor bases his strategy, indicated that leaving the EU will cost taxpayers £220 billion and will increase our National Debt to an eye-watering £2 trillion.

The interest payments on this would finance care for the elderly.

In view of this, are people who voted for Brexit sure that they want Teresa May to invoke Article 50 next March?

If not, they should petition their MP, along with the remainers, to vote against it in Parliament.

I cannot for the life of me understand why voters in this country want to inflict this sort of hardship on its own citizens just to leave the EU.

Surely it would have been better to remain a member and  work with other countries, to  change the policies of the EU from within like, for instance, open borders.

It seems to me that we are jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

In his 17 years as a member of the European Parliament, Nigel Farage was not successful in changing a single directive that would have benefited this country.

All he has done is pick up his salary and lobby to remove us from membership altogether.

In this he was disastrously successful.

– True Blue, Tutshill.