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It really is just living in dream world - the EU will likely remain our biggest trade partner as our closest neighbor and current largest purchaser of our goods and services. Brexit won’t magically make that stop, particularly if we aren’t wanting to have the economy totally unravel beneath our feet. It’ll only serve to make trade much more complicated and costly in regards to trade with the EU. Furthermore, without us in the EU, we are in a far weaker position to negotiate trade agreements. Leaving the EU makes us smaller on the world stage. A smaller and less important trade partner. And likely a huge hit to our soft diplomatic power. You’re right in that control over our borders is the most significant thing that could come from Brexit. And for us to retain any of our EU benefits that so many on the Brexit camp say that we’ll be able to have despite wanting a hard Brexit, we will have to cede some of that control over our borders. The best case Brexit scenario imo is we go the Norway route... and even then, I don’t see what the point is as we would still be beholden to EU regulations. We just would no longer have any say in what those regulations are. The illusion of freedom isn’t worth creating economic instability and putting the personal wealth of all British people at risk, decreasing Britain’s soft power, and ability to negotiate trade deals. The biggest beneficiaries are disaster capitalists banking on economic collapse and privitisation. They’ll have ultimate freedom. But not the vast majority of people.

I'd say there's a stronger sense of it in county cricket. The longer format of county cricket relies on local support because interest has dwindled thanks to T20 and one-day cricket being a bit more entertaining. There's not much to excite the kids these days when it comes to county championship cricket. Plus scheduling recently has been pretty stupid - I think in the season just gone, they had 4-day county championship matches planned for Friday to Monday on one week - when if you want to try and get younger fans involved or interested, it would have been better to have it Tuesday to Friday because it was during half-term/school holidays so kids wouldn't have been at school and more likely to attend.

It's for people that continue to believe in Unicorns. The only beneficial thing of leaving the EU was the control of our borders but that's come (or will come) at a price that will destroy everything this country is built up on for the last 30 years, which is alot! Its boring to have these types of debates anymore because the truth is actually out there to see now and there's no need to listen to any of the polarised opinions on leaving or staying... The facts are out there now and we were lied to... Maybe not lied to in some cases because nobody (not even them, the politicians) had a bloody clue!

Ok so initially I acknowledged that there was a bit of “make Britain great again” element to the vote, so I’m not wholly disagreeing with you. However vote leave which was the official campaign for leaving had nothing to do with Farage. Farage got as much media attention as he did because his supporters lapped it up and those easily triggered by it spat there dummies and controversy sells, in a click bait world all those giving attention to it are responsible for its reach. The official campaign didn’t talk about Islamic immigration (officially as a policy, no doubt it they got asked) you might perceive it as such but it really didn’t. Leave.eu was a privately funded campaign that featured Farage and focussed on immigration, often both sides contradicted each other because vote leave (the official campaign) focused on economic arguments. And let’s not pretend there wasn’t / isn’t project fear by unofficial remain elements of the media / political class. More laughable than the millennium bug some of it. The EU are our biggest trade partners because they’ve set the parameters and they negotiate trade deals as a block for years. Freedom to chose our own path means we can negotiate our own trade deals that we believe are beneficial to us. Of course there’s no guarantee we’ll get it right all the time but at least then we only have ourselves to blame. Like it or not that’s Freedom. See above.

wait, haven't you already seen him in that? Didn't you take this picture of you wearing it before you lent it to him?

Last thing I tried in McDonald's was the toilets... The food, ( let's call it food for the sake of argument ) is truly awful stuff...

Legend turns 80 today

I love Britain.