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Great idea. Need to get a piece of that excess GDPR, over regulation, economic micro management and low GDP growth we are sadly missing out on.

And what's our growth been like in the past ten years? Also the last time I looked the UK has GDPR*

* I don't think this is a bad thing, but opinions vary.

I said excess, I didn’t say we didn’t have any.

Our growth has been moribund so how would joining a trading bloc, with whom we already trade and have an agreement with, turbocharge it ?

But there's a disconnect if you say, don't join the EU because of low GDP growth and GDP growth in the EU has been materially faster than the UK over the same period.

* Google AI so perhaps check sources but I get 46% UK versus 63% EU growth GDP 2016 to 2025 current USD and 48% UK versus 86% EU GDP per capita PPP growth over the same period.

Should add UK GDP growth was similar to or better than EU while the UK was a member

2016 is dodgy data because the referendum played havoc with the currency markets in 2016.

Taking a more recent benchmark (eg 2019/2022) or a more distant one, shows that the UK has outgrown the EU per capita.

Both GDP measures I put forward are internationally recognised and valid. GDP per capita PPP in principle compensates for currency volatility and that one has the big gap with the EU

There are numerous regions of Poland now richer than not a few regions of the UK.
However Barry likes to explain it away, the last decade has seen remarkable economic growth in Poland.

Meanwhile the regional funding our poorer regions used to receive was not (as was promised) matched by post Brexit governments.
Which cheated many of the areas which voted most heavily for Brexit.

Opinion polling has been very clear for some time. Most of the electorate believe Brexit to be a crock.
Brexiteer cope used to be that there is no majority for rejoin.
Now there seems to be that too, they are struggling to explain it away.

Rachel Reeves and Sadiq Khan do NOT speak for me.
If I .have something to say I will say it myself. I wouldn't trust either of them with anything. Both have no.idea of the truth. Khan is even worse than Reeves if that's possible.

What are you talking about? When did they ever say they speak for you?

Erm, the thread header?

FWIW I have never opposed closer economic links with the EU. At the time we left the EU were as offended as a betrayed spouse and were not willing to offer it. If they have calmed down to the point that they are I would be delighted. We have a lot of mutual interests, probably more since the US went insane.

I would be astonished if this resulted in us rejoining but anything short of that that improves our terms of trade is no problem at all for this leaver.