SOME of the increasingly desperate ramblings of the EU “remaindears” in last week's D&S need responding to.

Is Ian Watt of Hutton Rudby really so naive that he believes that all our current laws will be wiped out when we leave the EU? Or maybe he hopes that readers are that gullible.

What we will be able to do, and which we can’t do now, is to remove those laws which are irrelevant, obstructive or do not benefit us.

John Edmundson of Richmond quotes as fact made-up figures from the Centre for Economic Performance – a grand sounding title. The CEP is in fact a research centre at the LSE, partly funded by the EU, and has no institutional views, only those of its individual researchers.

There is no provable basis for the ludicrous figures quoted.

Similarly the American company Standard & Poor – we know what the Americans want us to do but fortunately we are a federal state of neither the US nor Germany, and I hope we remain that way.

One final point. Farmers needn’t fear for their EU subsidies – our government will treat them as well, if not better, with the money saved by leaving the EU. After all would they really turn on their staunchest supporters? They obviously won’t admit this before the vote as this would take away the only reason why they should vote to remain.

Denis McAllister, Leyburn