I quoted Overheard Bloke in the Gym Changing Room not long after the referendum: ‘We should say ‘You’ve had your last cheque, Merkel’, close the borders, job done!’ If we’d followed his sage advice rather than fannying around for four years, we’d have been through the pain, Boris would be history and whoever won the 2020 election would be applying to rejoin the EU. Still. You live and learn.
“‘Quick and easy’: what leavers said about a UK-EU Brexit trade deal”
There used to be a certain type of chap (always a chap) who managed to have a pretty enjoyable and louche time at school and bluff his way through exams. He’d get into Oxbridge, his father’s old college, a few strings pulled, have a pretty enjoyable and louche time,...