Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it. Those who live in the past are already repeating it, ad nauseum.

Things will change when Britain joins Europe in earnest, and the euro and cross border bodies are a reality.

That looks like happening so soon. The Euro and cross border bodies are real right now, but the more people see of them, both in the UK and such anti-european places as France and Germany, the less they like them.

You want to join in the heart of an ever closer union run by Brussels? Fine. It can't be any worse than a province effectively run by thugs with guns, selling drugs and occasionally referring to events generations or centuries ago, to keep the home crowd happy.

Can't the 'old country bars' in Boston and New York raise enough to buy the place outright? Towing it across the Atlantic would be good as well.