It fascinates me. And I always said that if it truly offered a Pan-European future then I was open to persuasion. But it has not.

It is rotten to the core. I accept that I have far to much interest in the daily machinations of real politik and that the EU throws up so many interesting questions and contradictions but the UK is so far well out of it.

Just the utter stupidity of the Euro is proof for me that many of the leading lights of the European 'ideal' are beyond comprehension. And it has condemend millions of Europeans to poverty, reducing countries to effective vasel states. The biggest peace time disaster ever imposed on Europe.

Give me a genuine Pan-European ideal, with a glorious vision of the worlds greatest continent acting as one from the western most beachs of Ireland to the very edges of the Russian borders (and why should Russia not be included?) and I am all ears.

But what we have in Brussels is ludicrous. Just the farce of how it ups sticks and moves to Strasbourg for a few days every month is the only proof you need.

So do you think the report on grooming gangs should be published in full?
Brexit should be cancelled! Give it a rest, it’s going ahead whether you like it or not

I did, because comparing chalk and cheese never produces anything other than hot air.

Brexit itself won't be cancelled. That we will join a reformed EU after having undergone our own reforms will, in my opinion, in the fullness of time. This report is the most damning I have ever seen into how corrupt and unrepresentative our present system is and will be, I suspect, a watershed moment in our political life. It may well take a few other earthquake events to actually shake the apathy out but this is will when it be seen to have all started. To repeat what I wrote:-

"This report is a turning point on the long road to see this stupidity reversed and, indeed, in the need to see our democratic system overhauled and modernised to ensure it becomes truly representative."

Anything that has undermined our democracy like this cannot and must not be tolerated. That sentiment ought to be shared by everyone, whatever their personal political viewpoint.

I did, because comparing chalk and cheese never produces anything other than hot air.

Brexit itself won't be cancelled. That we will join a reformed EU after having undergone our own reforms will, in my opinion, in the fullness of time. This report is the most damning I have ever seen into how corrupt and unrepresentative our present system is and will be, I suspect, a watershed moment in our political life. It may well take a few other earthquake events to actually shake the apathy out but this is will when it be seen to have all started. To repeat what I wrote:-

"This report is a turning point on the long road to see this stupidity reversed and, indeed, in the need to see our democratic system overhauled and modernised to ensure it becomes truly representative."

Anything that has undermined our democracy like this cannot and must not be tolerated. That sentiment ought to be shared by everyone, whatever their personal political viewpoint.

You may be touching a nerve that the public don't really want to leave but it is too late.

And it's difficult to see why the EU would want us back in.

They can move on, as we have seen with the virus package, without the perpetual UK block on progress.