SIR - Mr Murray (T&A, December 10) seems to have misunderstood me.

I am well aware that David Cameron does not want to leave the EU and is simply using the hollow threat of leaving, in the hope of winning concessions for his financial supporters in the City of London.

Concessions, of course, from those nasty EU lawmakers who seem determined to prevent the London financial institutions from continuing to rob the 99% of everything they hold dear.

The big clue to his deception is that the ‘referendum’ (if he cannot win concessions for the City) is scheduled for 2017.

‘But why the delay?’ you may ask. I suspect that by the time 2017 rolls around (and if the EU has not collapsed under the weight of its foreign debt) the US will have completed their Transatlantic Treaty (TTIP) negotiations and will be in complete control of the whole Brussels shooting match.

Whereupon, I can envisage the situation where the ‘New Management’ will say ‘sure you can leave Bub - but it’s gonna cost ya’ £10 trillion for the loss of business your leaving will cost US corporations’ Does anyone think for one moment that I may be joking?

Christopher Hindle, Osterley Grove, Bradford