WOE is me, God give me strength. All the kerfuffle about the referendum and the disarray within all political parties is too much for my tired brain to absorb.

As a proud member of the working class, I have lived through the boom and bust cycle of pain several times during my working life. Sandwich board men announcing imminent apocalypse on every corner.

I am living proof that the End of the World didn’t happen. My standard of living has never felt the effects of the rise and fall of the stock market. I always had to search down the back of the settee hoping to find some loose change to fund my lunch box for the week before payday. Too much month left at the end of the money.

When the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that we were the ‘fifth richest country in the world’ or that we needed to ‘tighten our belts' my financial circumstances never changed. I was always ‘skint’. I don’t expect that leaving the EU will change things much for the ‘Great unwashed’.

As for the young people whose only worry seems to be that they may not be able to travel to France due to Brexit, don’t panic - if you can afford a train ticket the world is your oyster. Eurostar will be open for business as usual.

Michael Casey

Kirkby Lonsdale