Shell is not so much about brexit to me, but an example of how hedge fund managers can manipulate international businesses, even countries, for an advantage, in this case tax.

And these are the people with the power over climate, not citizens.

The COP really demonstrated their power, governments and their countries had only worthy speeches.

I have some news for you! No-one "celebrates" bad news! It's always a matter of sadness. The point being made is that just about everything that was predicted, and dismissed as "Project Fear" is happening, and almost nothing that was predicted by the Brexiteers is.

No-one suggests that many of the problems would have arisen, whether we stayed in or came out. The pandemic has caused many of them, but things like a shortage of lorry drivers would still have happened. As would the shortage of materials.

That's not the point. Brexit has made things worse, not better, just when we had another setback to cope with.

Why are there so many vacancies, forcing wages higher as employers outbid each other and causing inflation?

Many EU workers returned to their home countries during the lockdowns and now either cannot come back, or don't want to. This causes skill shortages. Ideological controls restrict the relaxing of the rules. It's a disaster which ought never have happened, causing inflation which makes us all poorer.

Essentially the claim made by leave at the 2016 referendum that the UK would leave while staying in the single market was false.

There never was any such plan.

Now we are seeing the reality of their gross deception.

And the dimness of the brexiteer generation.