The Brexit brigade has certainly out in force on your letters pages, with a gallic wasp attacking our English oak thrown in for good measure.

As for so many Brits, the fisheries policy was always a major bugbear for me.

However, David Cameron appeared to have made no effort to get any modification in his final deal before the referendum and was it not our fishermen who sold off their quotas to the highest bidder in the 1970-80s?

This foreign investment into UK has no doubt paid off many times over since and will continue to do so after Brexit. It will not be all plain sailing, as suggested by Anita Heappy.

As with fish, I generally try to find agricultural products which are first local and then British. Leading Brexiteers repeatedly declare that we will have access to cheaper foods. The UK already has the cheapest food products in the developed world.

Only the USA has cheaper beef than here and there are well-known reasons for that.

So while Devon farmers may get to sell their high end beef to China, what will they do with the rest when a Vegas-style 32oz T-bone sells here for under a tenner?

Michael Holliday

Pinwill Crescent, Ermington