True, just before joining we ended up a failed and bankrupt nation with the IMF having to come in and run the economy. Signed up to European membership then, we've steadily grown back to a fair degree of health, thanks entirely to the economic union with the EU and the services and manufacturing we provide them with.Yep, UK cant survive without EU..
Now with Brexit we are volunteering to risk going back to the pre-IMF management decades of decline.
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