The EU have just lost £40bn of UK money - and Remoaners still think Brexit was a bad idea

How do you lose a few billion quid? Why, send it to Brussels of course.

After news emerged that, out of the £44 billion we've handed the EU since we left - to tie up loose ends as part of our terrible exit deal - only eight per cent of it can be accounted for, it's worth remembering there are many who think it's a neat idea to sidle up to the Eurocrats anyway.

The rest of that vast pot of cash appears to have vanished into the all too familiar fog of Euro-bureaucracy, the world's most expensive black hole. And yet we are still told by the Remainer set that we were mad to leave.

If this were a British government there would be demands for resignations. But in Brussels, a few untraceable billions barely seems to raise an eyebrow. This is the same EU that never once managed to get its own accounts signed off without "irregularities" before we left the bloc.

Even now, nothing seems to have changed, except perhaps the size of the cheques.

And, let's be honest, it's galling enough that we're still paying anything at all. What's worse is how the EU treated us while they pocketed our money.

British fishing communities are being further gutted by quotas written to please France and Spain. Generations of proud coastal towns are being sacrificed so continental trawlers can plunder British waters.

And farmers are faring no better, now forced to navigate mountains of EU red tape designed by bureaucrats who'd never seen a muddy field in their lives. When the Common Agricultural Policy wasn't paying people to leave their land fallow, it was subsidising vast industrial farms in the heart of Europe.

We were told it was a "partnership". In truth, it was nothing short of a racket. Brussels got our cash, our markets, and our fish, and left us with unemployment and paperwork. Even now, with billions gone missing, the Remoaners are out in force, insisting we should crawl back to this bloated club of incompetents.

The same people who sneered at fishermen in Grimsby and farmers in Devon still dream of rejoining their beloved bureaucracy. They say Brexit "failed", yet it's the EU that can't even keep track of its own finances.

In 2016, Britain chose self-respect over servitude. We took back control of our money, our laws, and our borders.

Judging by this latest scandal, we were right to.

The only mystery is how anyone could still want to hand power back to the people who lost billions of our cash and called it business as usual. Remoaners can keep their Brussels fantasy. The rest of us will stick with Britain.