I do think it's possible to make Brexit work for Britain, but you have to be realistic over immigration and get the fiscal policy right. The Tories' plans are not, in my opinion, adequate to make a success of it. Their direction of travel will see us worse off economically and socially than we would have been inside the EU. The EU though is in need of reform and if we were able to get a good exit deal for the country as a whole and reform economic policy it could be better outside, but the chances of that appear slim.

Looks like the insurance industry are already changing their tune,from a UK one to an EU tune..

"February:More than half of the UK’s top business leaders believe the country’s decision to leave the European Union has already begun to produce negative effects, according to polling firm Ipsos MORI.

In its annual Captains of Industry study, 58% said their businesses had already suffered from planned withdrawal.

"April:Moore Stephens survey reveals that over 40% of UK insurance firms intend to change their operation models due to Brexit. The top three locations for those looking to create operations in other jurisdictions were Ireland, Luxembourg and Germany.

May:many insurers are making plans to move some parts of their business away from London. Lloyd’s and AIG are among those looking to move people to other parts of the EU so that they can keep doing business with the remaining 27 EU nations."

Yup,its all really starting to smell like roses and hard Brexit euphoria awaits....

Meanwhile,in the real world this week...

"Wages, after adjusting for expected inflation, will fall over 2017, which would make this the first calendar year of negative growth in four years, according to revised projections from the Bank of England....inflation will outstrip wages, spelling negative real wage growth - the first time this has occurred since 2013, when prices rose 2 per cent and wages just 1.5 per cent."

Lloyds and AIG are moving numbers in the teens to Europe. The underwriting will still be done in London.

London is still the centre of the Worlds insurance industry and around 15% of income is coming from Europe. More lucrative endeavours are in building business with the developing world economies.

Lloyds and AIG are moving numbers in the teens to Europe. The underwriting will still be done in London.

London is still the centre of the Worlds insurance industry and around 15% of income is coming from Europe. More lucrative endeavours are in building business with the developing world economies.

Clement Attlee on the Common Market:
our geographical position put us in the centre of markets. That was one of the great strengths of our position. We did not have to look merely into Europe; we could look outside. We had our relationships with the Colonies overseas, later the Dominions; with the United States; with all continents, just because we were not tied up with the Continent of Europe. Now we are to be tied ... It is entirely different from anything we have had before. We are to become part of a larger whole, an appendage to Europe ... historically, that has not been our position. We may have been at the centre of markets, but we have not been in one market and out of the others. We have had to fight against hostile tariffs; we have had to keep our end up. We have never put ourselves into a position in which we were inside a ring-fence with a number of Continental Powers. Make no mistake: it is an entire change.