We are a first rate city with a third rate country attached. (View Post)

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)