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Teflon tony and farage as the leading lights of the british zeitgeist. It makes fawlty towers seem decidedly unfunny

Fine,but why have "if we must go back to being self sufficient" as a premise at all? Or make national boundaries s defining issue? Its the wrong premise and a backwards basis for planning things. If i have toi could dig a fallout shelter and grow my own potatoes. But happilly living in an open...

Globalisation isn't only (or even mainly) about technology, manufacturing and production. economic freedom and free trade are ends in themselves - it can, arguably, produce higher levels of overall material wealth worldwide and the spread of liberty (and capitalism). An inward looking Britain...

with respect, I don't agree. to me a developed country like the UK (for now) trying to manufacture its own goods in a globalised world is a bit like, say, someone with a profession taking time out form his professional activity to make his own toothpaste. in a world in which other countries in...

but it is probably illegal under WTO rules http://news.sky.com/story/nissan-investment-may-come-at-significant-cost-10634181 and so may not happen, sometimes I wonder whether submarine May's poker face hides an "intelligence" very bit as unkeen as andrea leadsom's

but "we"(ms may and co) avoid an embarrassing front page rupture about the damage brexit is doing to the economy, which is, politically, priceless.

There is this puzzling,vaguely distressing phenomenon http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3872954/We-care-migration-single-market-says-Brexit-poll-suggests-Theresa-backing-Great-British-public.html being thick enough to confuse the eu with the tories and misdirect a protest vote is one...

oh get the chip of yer shoulder fingers, Rear Admiral Tool Long

I believe in people being treated as equals,regardless of ethnicity or nationality. I don't think you are entitled to a privileged life on the basis of where you're born. Look on the bright side,making a life for oneself is a great deal more interesting than discriminating against foreigners and...

which one would that be, that "poles are cheap" or that they were "forced upon you"? so, you want a privileged life and protected employment on the basis of nationality because you cant succeed on your own merit. deeply impressive.

your generalisations about "poles" or "English" workers is racist (especially whether they are good or bad). I worked in the nhs. many of my colleagues were poles. some were Russian, there a few fellow Africans (Nigerians, Sudanese, a south African). we never considered each others' relative...

Indeed,did you see the canadian forein minister wipe away tears on euronews after the deal fell through? Im saving a cheap bottle of champagne for when boris does whatever his version is of that in five years or so

unfortunately this isn't a poker game. it's an economic relationship between neighbours based on economic fundamentals. the uk's economy is considerably based on services provided to the eu and international investment into the uk based on that trading reality. brexit ends all of that.

that's what I found disingenuous, from this http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ddccb369-0752-44b2-b485-919336c6034b it does not seem the case, but I imagine they do not want to hold more capital and need to create reasons for avoiding it?

as if not I the uk? http://www.postonline.co.uk/post/news/2472819/fca-to-retain-large-sections-of-eu-regulation-post-brexit having bailed out financial services with your pension and health and social care I would have imagined you would, as a uk taxpayer, be quite happy for regulation that...

that's very disingenuous: FWIW the actual bigger picture https://www.ojassociates.com/blog/2016/03/brexit-referendum-and-its-impact-on-the-uk-insurance-industry hard brexit will mean the uk insurance industry loses direct access to a market of 28 countries. I imagine the telegraph is as usual...

may is being populist of course and playing the public (or vice versa). one cant help wondering at what exact point the public's sense of denial will wear off, with the steady drumbeat of bad news, devaluation...

this a bit of a tangent. I'm not advocating sloping off as a basic paradigm to live by. IMHO one needs two things - a sense of community and something to do to feel meaningfully alive and part of it - to be happy. if sloping off - so to speak - robs one of either of these, it's a mistake. but of...

you make too many assumptions. the dream is going OK (not utopian, but there are places left on planet earth where Farage or Trump don't represent an evolutionary ideal, Europe comes to mind). "sloping off"? Nope, some of my ancestors killed racists back in Africa. I have my own ways of fighting...

there will in due course be many along who will say it wont work (and their absolutely right; think of the experience of freeing down a hill and losing your momentum/kinetic energy before you managed to get a tenth up the next incline: there isn't any real surplus energy worth having, period)...