REALITY check – the average person in this country is fed-up to the back teeth with hearing about the lacklustre Brexit negotiations.

Others are completely indifferent and neither know nor care what is going on.

Shame really as it’s one of the most important milestones in this country’s history.

But it is hard to blame them in some ways as we keep hearing blatant propaganda about how awful it is going to be when we leave.

This reminds me of all the arrant nonsense about how disastrous the Millennium bug was going to be.

Which, of course, it wasn’t.

Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab has now warned that we must be ready for a ‘no deal’ scenario, which I hope isn’t the situation but which must actually better than a bad deal.

What is consistently overlooked is that the EU needs us more than we need them.

That gives us such a strong hand yet our negotiators keep behaving as if Brussels holds all the aces when it is just not so.

Frankly it is infuriating.

There is such a lot of drivel being talked by the political elite and vested interests about difficulties that could follow Brexit that it is no wonder that the man in the street is more interested in football results and the price of beer.

But meanwhile it is just six months till B-day and the government must get on with it and stand firm against the doom mongers from whichever side.

Paul Nuttall, North West MEP UK Independence Party