Ah yes Shaw - all Maggies fault - how predictable, how pathetic. We do more trade with the world now than we do with the EU. But those halcyon days that you so fondly and lovingly remember never actually existed our balance of payments showed that, just to prop up the jobs for life irrespective of whether people wanted the product or not was ruining the country. The most expensive coal in the world, poor management, idiotically irresponsible trades unions - that was Britain before Maggie and it was going to hell in a hand-cart.

The fact that we DO buy more from the EU than we sell to them is exactly the reason we will be able to get a far better deal with them outside than the EU than in it.

Tell me Shaw what are the predicted growth figures for Europe for the coming year compared to those of the UK? How much does a trading block whose individual members economies are stagnant, and whose currency is under threat buy?

That old hobby horse of yours - zero hours contracts - come on Steve tell us how many people are on them out of the 30-odd million people who are in work in the UK at present.