People who say "we were ok before we joined the EU" are forgetting that there wasn'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't make it go away!

Other countries aren'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'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.