People who say "we were ok before we joined the EU" are forgetting that there wasn& #39;t an EU for us to join then.

But now we have the biggest trading bloc on the planet within sight of Dover and directly accessible from Northern Ireland.

Our departure didn& #39;t make it go away!

Other countries aren& #39;t about to hit the "Rewind" button just because we seem determined to shrink the UK economy to the levels it enjoyed in the 1970s.

It& #39;s like saying "we managed fine before we had cars".

Yes, we did, for a certain limited value of "fine".

But nobody in their right mind would suggest getting rid of cars and going back to horse-based transport.