I HAVE always liked Halloween but it is tainted for me this year now that those EU chappies have fixed that as the extension date for us waving them goodbye.

For heaven's sake, and the sake of our country and our sanity, let's just leave now with no deal.

With the way things are going that's how it'll probably end up at the end of October anyway.

But meanwhile we will not only be trapped in the Brussels' enslaving web, we will have had to fork out tens of millions of pounds to take part in the EU elections.

In 2014 it cost this country £109m to participate and it is bound to cost as much if not more this time round.

That is a scenario that neither Conservatives nor Labour will relish as the voters will punish them for their myriad deceits and lies following the referendum result.

Paul Nuttall, North West MEP, Brexit Party.