SURPRISINGLY, I find myself agreeing with Boris Johnson on something. He now says that we will get ‘diddly squat’ from the EU and that they will leave the UK ‘flat on the canvas’.

Well, as the experts told us in 2016, this was always going to be so.

Mr Johnson recently authored a book about Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill had to lead the British people through an existential crisis against a real enemy.

Mr Johnson creates false ‘enemies’ by the use of ‘Euromyths’, such as cyclist safety regulations, bendy bananas, threat to British pink sausages and by picking on women who commit to Islam and wear the Niqab. Meanwhile, fellow instigators of this mess hide behind Mr Johnson’s ambition.

After two years of government squabbling and with just seven months to go there is still no credible proposal for leaving the EU.

It looks like we are heading for Blind Brexit, and we will leave with no idea what is going to happen next.

Currently, the pound is down, investment in industry is down and parts of some businesses are leaving the UK for other countries within the EU. Our influence and security within the world are being reduced.

Donald Trump ridicules our Prime Minister and is instigating a trade war. There is still no solution to the Irish border situation.

Meanwhile, the 27 other countries of the EU take minimal time to agree their stance and hold together better than our government.

Leavers often make the mistake of saying ‘they need us more than we need them’ but, that’s not true. Though countries within the EU will lose out economically too they will also gain as our industries move jobs away from the UK.

It is quite clear that the EU countries will protect the integrity of the single market and their four freedoms people, capital, goods and services whatever the cost of Brexit.

Currently, the UK has a very advantageous position as part of the EU. An opt out on further political integration, keeping the pound, tariff-free trade with the 27 other EU countries and 60 other trade deals around the world and the benefits of freedom of movement for UK citizens, a place at Europe’s top table etc.

It now looks like the only way to get out of this mess is a ‘people's vote’ on the final deal with the option of staying in the EU.

John Wright

Kendal