Teacher doesn't know what he's on about as most of the immigrants working in the NHS are either from the Indian sub continent or are Filipinos so a hard Brexit won't affect NHS recruitment at all

All well and good but still struggling to see how outside of the initial issues it impacts that negatively?

Both the people running Dover and Calais say they are ready and that No Deal will not make any noticeable difference. Ditto with air-travel.

With regards to the Irish border, 85% of their exports cross over, less than 0.5% of ours goes the other way. If the EU want to play silly buggers who gets hurt the most?

Once we leave the UK can react quicker and faster than the EU to any change in economic circumstances and there is a lot of built-up investment waiting. What it requires is clarification rather then us remaining. One of the main reasons Germany have been so keen on us remaining is because of our pro-business stance. Commercially the UK will present the EU with a genuine head-ache should we leave without no deal and have to scrap it out.

Now, of course, we all relish a lovely helping of schadenfreude but the truth is we need to have this ended.

And that only comes about when we leave.

Yeah, our immigration policy is going great.

More people getting stabbed in a day than in a year in my youth. And let's not get started on the epidemic of organised crime.

But hey, the NHS. Let's stick to the globalist line.

So you essentially concede that you are an activist yourself or indeed an average voter? in which case there is no point trying to reason.

Oh I am an "activist" all right, in that I don't sit passively and allow things I believe to be falsehoods to remain unchallenged. Am I average? Probably not.

I don't have strong feelings about Brexit one way or another - I voted out and it's been a total mess. However as much as I cringe at voting the same way as some the extreme right wing, the patronising coming from the Remain camp is the same. The backhanded- "i'm sure you are normal folk but you just aren't as smart as I am"

Contrary to popular belief here I have never claimed I am smarter than anyone else, or that anyone is stupid. Those ideas come only from others. You must ask them why they seem to believe that. I also see no patronising coming from anyone opposing the current government's approach, which isn't a "remain" camp at all. It is a no "no-deal" camp. The ultra Brexiteers just want a bogeyman as an enemy.

If you don't deliver Brexit then you are effectively killing Democracy.

That's just untrue. This is Parliamentary Democracy at it's finest. We have been around why many times, so if you really don't understand why please pm me.

Taking your profile at face value, you are from Wisbech and now live in Truro. You're 75 years old. Now as a 38 year old who grew up in a council town, I don't appreciate being told continually that I was sold a package or that I'm not intelligent enough to know what I voted for. Frankly you come across as patronising.

As I have never made any specific accusations about individuals I have no idea why you feel offended. People voted the way they did for a variety of reasons. My remarks are about the general situation which I have observed, which indicate that many folk bought into a false narrative from the Leave campaign. It is easy to understand why that was the case. Selling change is always easier than selling the status quo. What is sad is that such an important judgement was reduced to a marketing campaign. That is a criticism of the process and not of the people who were subjected to it.

Everyone in their life is at different stages, and people vote based on personal perceptions and personal prejudices. Someone who goes on wine tours of France for example may vote in, whereas a factory worker in Yorkshire will vote out. It doesn't mean either side is wrong. The reality is that I was not sold a package by Remain, when I should have been. I should have been their ideal voter - 38 years old, Self Employed Professional. I think managed immigration is a good thing.

As everyone I speak to thinks managed immigration is a good thing, however they voted, maybe that makes the point about the false narratives.

What sealed voting out for me was visiting Greece and seeing a country that was unable to set it's own economic policy as it was tied to the Euro. Two days before I was in Montenegro - outside the Euro and able to attract an inflow of tourists/investment. The EU has undoubtedly done some good, but it is also full of corruption. Politicians have lost the ability to engage with the man on the street.

Once again I have not spoken to anyone who thinks that the EU is perfect or not in need of reform. Whether that means we must leave completely, or stay and make it better was a judgement call. The question for me was always who should make that call? The electorate after a marketing campaign, or the paid representatives, our MPs, with their access to expert advice?

All of this is a total mess, but the fault lies on all sides and every politician is generally out for their own ends.

That it's a mess is undoubtedly true. The fault lies squarely with Cameron for risking our country's future to try to face down the ERG and UKIP on behalf of the Tory Party. Everything flowed from that. I am not so cynical about our politicians. Some maybe but far from them all.

There is no direct connection between our immigration policy and knife crime that I have ever seen established. That you seem to think there is says quite a lot about how you are thinking.

The rising knife crime is awful but from the analysis I saw a day or two ago is thought, by those who have to handle the outcomes and try to understand it, to be much more to do with social conditions, poor parenting and a lack of suitable resources than anything else.

Blaming immigration is just a cop out. Most of those involved, so far as I am aware, were born in the UK.