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you can kick out the tories in 2020. You can't vote out any of the EU directives.

you could attribute some of the blame to the neo-liberal economic doctrine at the heart of the Single Market. Basically, the EU directives prevent government intervention to prop up ailing industries causing them to relocate elsewhere.The posted workers directive for example enables companies to...

that indudtry generates about £75bn a year surplus in this particular trade. Just think about the taxes on top of it. Don't knock it.

The biggest problem for brexit is direct inward investment that has been hit because of uncertainty. That uncertainty will be gradually lifted as the negotiation with the EU progresses.

It may seem that way to you but you are totally wrong here. There is plenty of good information you can get from economic data.

I don't think we can catch up with those countries in production technologies because of our education system. Their students cram for years before each exam. That's why I refer to the PISA table because good education lifts them from poverty faster than any other mean. This country however...

The Pound is the barometer of brexit. I reckon the cost of brexit has already been factored in. If we get a good deal, then the only way is up.

The world has moved on and we have outgrown the EU. It's as simple as that, OG. Look to the Pacific Rim. Look at their achievement in the PISA table.

this is the letter that did it: The sig is Mrs May's BTW.

No. Yes, about oldtom but I can't repeat it here. brexit is now brexit.

You may have noticed I never quote these newspapers, nor the Telegraph and the Sun. I don't consider them as reliable.

"We must not forget that the UK is still a partner, in Nato and in Europe," Angela Merkel where did you hear this? Where did you hear this?

I know those hospitals well. The chaos has more to do with 8 million motorbikes in use in the city. Inside, it's organised chaos and it does work. Vietnam has some of the best education and healthcare systems among ASEAN countries but you can always use private hospitals there or hop over to...

I cited ASEAN as an example of a beneficial economic grouping without political union aim, something that EU countries will have to think about for their future. The purchasing power is a more appropriate measure of income per capita. For ASEAN countries, it's equivalent to $12k and it's growing...

I would say that brexit is one of the most important decisions that this country has taken in my lifetime. When we went in, we were in a much worse situation than now but the time is right to leave a grouping that has enlarged and changed so much. Brexit may have been brought about by a lot of...

It's official, we are leaving the EU. Mrs May has delivered in parliament her best speech yet on brexit. Let's have some faith that she means what she said.

very neat soldering!

@oldtom If you don't understand something, engage in further discussion. Don't treat the comments that you don't understand or agree with as nonsense and their posters as stupid, morons or label them with such pejorative words. People put in effort to bridge the gap between the two factions. All...

oldtom must be running out of new insults. He gave my last post a bad spelling rating.

the author is Alan Johnson, he works here. http://fathomjournal.org/author/alan-johnson/ the view of lexiteers is not only the European parliament is toothless, it is not a real parliament, its member have no manifestoes, no legislative programs, nobody listens to them and knows who they are...