It looks like we have a head start on other euro nations in doing this. I wonder why that is?

It was a poor programme. I lasted 10 minutes and that was enough.

I see the same posters are back banging the remoaner drum. To be honest, leaving has done me no favours personally, however I’d still rather be out. I can see Europe having a very hard time of it over the next few years.

I’d love to know where their recovery package monies are coming from and how the poorer countries propose to pay it back.

No. When we gave up our place at the table, we abandoned the opportunity to shape that.

This war has many fronts. The ultimate prize is a secure, happy and successful nation. The most urgent task is to overcome the pandemic and get the economy as functional as possible. That involves finding ways to mitigate the worst aspects of an unneeded and self-destructive Brexit. Then we must try to hold the Union together long enough for the prospect of us rejoining a reformed EU to defeat any future independence referendums.

Doing that whilst fighting the effects of climate change, social deprivation and a divided nation will keep minds occupied long after my lifetime.

Seeing Verstoffher and Dutch PM Rutte dancing a jig on leaving day I somehow think the UK is confused if it thinks that it divorced from the EU and not the other way round.

The short answer is 'Non' as General De Gaulle wisely said, now we know why.

TB says we would have to be transformed into a successful country to interest the EU again.

The demographics do support the end of the brexit generation but painfully slowly.

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No. When we gave up our place at the table, we abandoned the opportunity to shape that.

This war has many fronts. The ultimate prize is a secure, happy and successful nation. The most urgent task is to overcome the pandemic and get the economy as functional as possible. That involves finding ways to mitigate the worst aspects of an unneeded and self-destructive Brexit. Then we must try to hold the Union together long enough for the prospect of us rejoining a reformed EU to defeat any future independence referendums.

Doing that whilst fighting the effects of climate change, social deprivation and a divided nation will keep minds occupied long after my lifetime.

I am not whining! You are. You are whining because I disagree with your attitude, which I find simplistic.

Brexit is done. I let it go a long time ago. Now we are dealing with the consequences, which show extremely clearly that no-one "won" anything. We are all losing. Now some, maybe you, think those losses are worth bearing. I don't, but they are there and must now be mitigated.