On whether all 27 member states would want us to rejoin, I think they probably would as we'd be big net payers, and the EU has always had a gigantic appetite for our money. Why we'd be idio… (View Post)

WE WOULD HAVE TO JOIN THE EURO if we joined, which is the definition of an economic disaster for a deficit country like us. (View Post)

They also work about 12% longer hours, which accounts for about a third of the difference in GDP/head. Really, ignore international comparisons. They need so many caveats as to be completely useless. (View Post)

International economic comparisons need a whole bunch of footnotes (PPP indices are very dodgy, measurement methodologies differ between countries, the comparison with America is particularly worthle… (View Post)

Big,interventionist government programme achieves exactly the opposite of what is intended shock ... (View Post)