The answer, if it gets that far, would be that deepening trade with the EU would generate enough benefits that it will be worth ditching the other deals for. See also the Pacific thing. I don't … (View Post)

@HYUFD, you are a decent chap, and that is an admirable thing to be. But the downside of being a decent chap is to assume that other people are also decent chaps. And to keep giving the benefit of th… (View Post)

Spain started sniffing around the EEC in the 1960s, but was politely (but firmly) told that it was nowhere near democratic enough. The accession negotiations started pretty sharpish once the old dict… (View Post)

More likely, people have a misplaced trust that, if the news media goes big on a story, it must be important. See my favourite "time to end the disatrous democratic experiment" polling; Nor… (View Post)

It would have been a smart idea, had the pandemic been properly over, as part of Operation Back To Normal. Doing EOTHO in Summer 2020 was like celebrating victory in the Battle of Britain with a mass… (View Post)