It's fascinating to now hear so many who threatened they would leave the UK now sounding a different tune after Brexit is now a reality. Maybe we could call it 'the Osborne pivot'. I hope someone soon publishes an even more detailed account of the costs for businesses in the EU centres vying to steal UK business. Let's have a detailed comparison of labour laws, employment costs to companies, taxes to individuals, limitation on earnings and bonuses, corporation tax, inability of companies to let staff go etc etc. The reality is beginning to strike home!

David Fuller's view

Thank you for this good article by Paul Blanchard, with which many of us will agree, and I like 'the Osborne pivot'.

How we fare, as I have said before, depends on top-down governance in the UK.  We are very fortunate to have Theresa May at the helm and the Conservatives in charge for the next several years, because there will be plenty to do.  We do not need a Lib/Dem coalition or any variation of Labour trying to emulate the EU’s ‘progressive socialism’. 

I wish Europe well but the EU has yet to prove that it can save itself.