Has anyone told Tony Blair that?......

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

Well, just as one example, your own obsession with immigration has hardly been made any easier as a consequence of Brexit has it? Getting a European wide strategy in place would be much easier inside, than outside the EU and French co-operation would be a requirement inside. Now they are probably helping to inflate the dingies.

I see no benefits at all. Attributing the negative impacts has been made harder by the pandemic, the surge in energy costs and now the war. So they are a convenient smokescreen, but not for nothing did the IMF forecast we would be the slowest growing economy in the G7 next year. Why do you think that is? Maybe because we are the only one having to handle a Brexit?

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For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Of course, Brexit contributes to our economic problems. The difficulty is measuring how much when so many other things are also happening.

Again, whilst international cooperation doesn't depend on the EU (look at Nato and Ukraine) it makes it simpler when a European wide approach is needed and all members bound by agreements. We have put ourselves outside the club and needing to beg for assistance, rather than at the table inside helping to decide the strategy.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

I would concede he is an expert on fake dossiers and going into illegal wars.

Can't think of anything else except...... no need to list, oh, and being Bush's poodle

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Believe me, being “bound” by agreements in the past has meant nothing. Very few EU countries complied with the Dublin Convention, when it came to removing people to the country they had arrived from. In fact the UK were probably the best at this. I know you might not like to hear this but it is fact

A statement that you would expect from an incurable Remainer.

Whether it has contributed or not, any negative effect will be worth it to rid ourselves of Brussels.

If you can't spot that negative effect between the fuel prices, food shortages, inflation and the rest of the stuff we know the cause of then it can't be very significant now can it.