I AM sorry to note that Derek Griffiths (letter, February 1) had no idea what he was voting for in the EU referendum.

And that he is so misguided as to think our children and grandchildren will be left with a post-EU debacle.

In my opinion, the majority of voters knew exactly what they voted for, despite widespread scaremongering from both sides which, on balance, might have swung many to vote Remain.

Personally, I shall be proud to leave the next generations a prosperous United Kingdom returned to its sovereign independence, freed from the shackles of Brussels bureaucracy, free to make its own laws, free to control its borders, free to trade with the whole world both within and outside the EU under whatever terms may be agreed.

I think the British people know well that our net contribution of nearly 10 billion a year to the EU is propping up 19 receiving members (plus 55,000 civil servants in Brussels) and we can ill afford to do so.

My company traded both within and outside the EU, with no great difficulty and when in the 1960s we were members of EFTA there was no central bureaucracy whatsoever, just a duty free trading group of six nations.

A free trade area was all the British voted for when we joined the EEC, not a political union.

May I suggest all doubters read “ An easy guide to leaving the EU” written by the eminent economist, Gerald Lyons.

PETER BELLAN

St Davids