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Are you proposing the "Singapore of the West" model for the UK?

I didn't like it either, but I ain't suddenly going to be supporting Croatia.

What is clear now though, is that the option of being in the EU will be a less good proposition in 5 years time than it is now, and that the option of being out is going to see us remaining close to the EU on many things.

Ok, perhaps I should have said research rather than thought, maybe there was not enough thought about whether what they were hearing was true or not. If it chimed with what they already believed or wanted to believe, most people, me included, don't question it too much. I am going to post a link...

I am sure many people believed in what they were voting for, but believing doesn't make it true. This is why I said badly informed, much of the UK press has been printing bollocks about the EU for decades, I used to believe a lot of it myself, and they carried on in the same vein during the...

The "get over it" was a bit tongue in cheek mate. I hope the bit in your post where you suggest that to have a vote, would end democracy, is in the same spirit.

I think it was a stupid choice, and I think not enough people gave it enough thought. But anyone is capable of making stupid decisions, me included, usually when I haven't given something enough thought.

Depends on how it is overturned, if it is via another referendum I suspect just the people that don't usually bother at GE's will go back to not bothering. I would hope that if we have another referendum and Remain wins out, that those who had supported leave would "get over it". I don't think...

I believe it was a prohibition on the larger vessels issued by DEFRA in previous years that was not issued this year, not an instruction to go and clear out the French, but an invitation I suppose.

Thanks for replying. The EU have proposed Tax harmonisation rules to combat the issue of corporations avoiding tax in this manner, understandably there has been opposition to this from various countries, including the UK, but I believe something should be in place soon. This problem exists in...

I think some of the Brexiteers would be quite happy if it didn't happen, if they vote for the deal and this is what we get, they will have ownership of the shit to follow, if they vote against and we end up in no deal, they will have ownership of the shit to follow, if they vote against this...

Pleas e explain why it is that the EU is to blame for these.

I went in search of the EU law that pissed me off and I did find one, it's that little screw on the cover of battery compartments you get now, that is an EU law, to stop kids swallowing batteries, but it really pisses me off when I need to change a battery, not to the extent that I am willing to...

Sorry mate the situation is exactly the opposite, the referendum result is not legally binding, no one is ignoring it, and the EU would be glad of us staying, because it is damaging for them too. At one time, there seemed to be no shortage of people saying that the EU would give us a great deal...

If we leave and rejoin, then the terms for us are likely to be different, if we never leave we will retain our current status, that is keep the pound, keep the rebate and keep the veto's that we have. There is a judgement due to be announced on December 4th by the EU courts on wether we can just...

The EU had no restriction in place, however, the French had a ban in place on its fleet to protect the breeding stock. The UK had agreed a compromise in the last few years, with the French, in that we would not allow our larger vessels to fish for scallops till the end of October, smaller...

You're a do-as-you-likey?

If 600,000 changed their minds, it would be 50/50, 1.2 million to get the opposite result. It is reckoned about 600,000 more leavers have died than remainers, so just needs 1 or 2 people to change their mind really.

It would be Norway, plus a Customs Union, so it would be like membership, but without the right to vote or veto anything.

If we look like heading into a no deal situation, I am sure the EU will offer us a period of extended membership, in return for £39 Billion or so, which we would be nuts not to take. If we pay nothing there will be legal wrangles trying to get at least some of it, they won't want to be saddled...