THERE is quite a lot of truth in what Peter Booth said in his letter.The reason the nation voted to leave the EU was not over immigration, but because of the decision not to be controlled by petty bureaucrats in Brussels, in a Union dominated by France and Germany, with 24 other rag-tags hanging on their coat-tails.

Angela Merkel should realise that Germany was, by virtue of starting two World Wars, instrumental in the destruction of Europe, wars instigated solely for German expansion.

Germany paid for neither of these wars, Hitler having reneged on payments in the 1930s, and then having the UK footing the bill after the Second World War, in that we were paying America for 'Lend Lease'.

This was deliberate policy on the part of the US, promoted by the Irish- American and German factions in the US government. They were determined to destroy what had been the British Empire, to promote US Trade.

Joseph Kennedy was deliberately appointed as the US Ambassador BECAUSE he hated the British.

It was the American intent that Britain should not play a leading part in the reunification of Europe after the Second World War, because they thought that it would be effectively an expansion of the British Empire.

There is no doubt that the millions we paid to the US for 'Lend Lease' went to financing what was the so-called 'German Economic Miracle': it was basically the UK that financed a war that Germany should have paid for.

That is why there should be no question of making any payments to the EU to leave. We have been financing inefficient farming in Europe over a number of years. We can now use this money to subsidise, for example, English wine production. French wine is highly subsidised, by their government, whereas ours is not.

What has changed since we joined the EU is that about 20 other countries have joined, nearly all of whom are subsidised by some of the original seven.

When we leave, it will be interesting to find out who will take over the contribution that we were making: after Germany, the UK was the largest contributor to the EU Budget: who will take this role: Luxembourg? Poland? Romania ? Latvia? I think not : yet these are the countries that colluded to deny Cameron any changes to the EU structure.

There will certainly not be much help from the southern European economies: Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal are hardly thriving economies.

Eastern Europe is still recovering from more than 50 years of communism.

Merkel will find that the chickens are coming home to roost.

David Olliver, Altrincham