It was one of the primary reasons why I did not want any kind of formal deal done with the EU. Local solutions could have been put into place, along with a host of others as well, as opposed to a one size fits all arrangement which is absolutely ludicrous.

Less than 2% of all UK exports actually crosses that particular border so it was utterly insignificant to the UK and given that the freedom of individual movement between the two countries pre-dated the EU by many decades, then that was never going to be an issue anyway.

The only people ever putting in any kind of 'hard' border infrastructure was going to be the EU and its a complete myth for people to think there ever was custom-free trade between the two nations anyway with the Southern Irish already checking not only commercial vehicles but also private ones as well for things such as heating oil.

NI has been allowed to hang in the ether by a political class who still wish for us to be tied into the EU. A 'good' deal for the UK never existed and it would have been far more honest to just admit that from the start rather than us being led down the garden path.

The EU, and those driving its wider agenda, are not pragmatic people. Greeces inclusion in the single currency project is the prime example of that. The notion that we could sit down and deal with them is utterly ludicrous.

Producing absurd economic figures from the Ministry of Silly Leave Walks won't help.

Your primary trading arrangement especially as a little island on the edge of europe must be with nearest and biggest market.

Relying on Australia it takes 3 weeks to get anything there.

20 billions in EU trade lost who knows how much the damage will be.

Breath wasted.

Other than the semi-moronic bottom-feeders who voted to leave to "say something" or attack the Tories or protest austerity or limit non-EU immigration, the vast swathe of Brexiteers voted to leave to oppose free movement from the EU.

Most do not have the wherewithal to understand issues with trade, or are in protected pensions or are unemployable so didn't care.

References to red tape, sovereignty, free markets, trade and the rest are almost always retrospective justifications.

In saying this, I am aware that a lot of intelligent people voted for those very reasons at the time, are still firmly committed to the country going it alone, and many post on here. However, I genuinely believe they represent a minority of Brexiteers who are wholly nonplussed by a reduction in trade and an eventual, relative decline of this country's economy.

Only if you take the position that cowardice is better than courage. Yes, if you wanted a quiet life and nothing to change, then voting Remain made perfect sense.

If the EU had remained nothing more than a trading organisation to try and ensure the easy flow of goods between its members, then I suspect we would not be having this discussion. But its over-riding reason for being was as a political project. That is what we voted on and Leave won.

It's done. Over. There are no more arguments for staying in. And to even think that is insanity.