The Chancellors comments this week effectively mean the end of brexit in my opinion although it may continue as a flag-waving exercise.

He even went so far as to say a future trade agreement would be identical to what we have now.

He holds the purse strings but more important he has the ongoing responsiblity for the economy unlike Davis and Fox whose departments close after brexit and Johnston and May who used brexit for their own career ends.

For them if it all goes wrong they walk away but not for whoever is in charge of the economy.

The government is in office but the treasury is in power - Harold Wilson.

Oh no! You mean operating an immigration system where individuals offer valuable skills and services a nation might have a need for, in exchange for the right to enter the country? Like a meritocratic system? Savage, right?

Aww. Aren't you quite the little snob? You've used this line before. Here's a newsflash: living in Malta does not make you edgy, special, smart, different, and most certainly in your case, it does not make you superior.

I could move to Malta tomorrow. Any Brit could. I wouldn't be willing to take the paycut, nor live in a comparative backwater. It's cool you want to though. Well done you. While you're waiting for the chance to even order Domino's...

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Bucket of bleach might do it. But don't eat too much.

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You know? I'm not even interested in slagging off Malta. Aside from the tax-haven side of things, the selling of passports and the remoteness, it's a nice place (for a couple of weeks), if a little too EU cuckold.

I'd also make no value judgement on the country itself by virtue of the odious cvnts that might happen to live there.

You seek to divide and conquer by disparaging and talking down the UK, most likely in a bid to provoke and draw the ire of posters here. It no doubt affords you some semblance of moral superiority to hear those angry retorts, nicely fueling your confirmation bias that we're all rabid racist isolationist xenophobes.

You're dead wrong.

I imagine very few of them fought for his type.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Most people weren't fighting against ideologies, a small minority would have...Benn for example. But on the whole that generation would reject most of the beliefs you have for example. Many people from your party refer to their generation as racists and bigots.

No, I remember my grandad and my uncle, most fought out of a combination of national and family duty and expectation. It was the culture of the times. That's why most of them would view the types like your mate with contempt.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I am not too worried about going to EU countries if brexit happens as I will be going 'Dutch'.