THE referendum of June 23, 2016 raised more questions than it answered. No one asked us if we wanted to leave the EEA.

Every politician has expressed dissatisfaction with the answers every other politician has come up with to those new questions raised by the referendum.

I think Donald Trump put this rather well when he said: “You don’t know what you want.

“You don’t know what you want.

“You can’t make a deal when you don’t know what you want.”

The banking crisis was a disaster.

None of our politicians in Westminster nor at Holyrood nor any top Whitehall civil servants have made any attempt to get any of that money back.

Austerity measures to pay for the banking crisis have just made matters worse and have hit everyone but the full time paid politicians and the top civil servants.

Let’s face it, the top civil service have been running the country since the election of Tony Blair and they haven’t done a very good job.

Our politicians are in office but not actually in power at all.

PFI and events like the collapse of Carillion are a national scandal worse than the banking crisis.

Billions and billions of taxpayers’ money is being taken by PFI companies massively overcharging the government for woefully inadequate buildings equipment and low quality services.

Money is being taken away from front line patient care in our NHS to pay for this and from front line policing.

Britain is in serious trouble.

Is this really the time to distract our lazy politicians attention away from our real problems any further and embark on a project like leaving the EU?

Nigel Boddy, Darlington