"And many, if not all, on your side wish to see us remain part of a union which already spends less on aid that we do, and continue to align ourselves with them."

We're not obliged to align ourselves with them in the matter of foreign aid, any more than we're obliged to align ourselves with them on what kind of hats our bobbies wear. A red herring and a desperately weak response, Nigel. And let me remind you that you would rather like to align yourself with a country that has such low welfare standards that it has to make its chickens safe to eat by chlorinating them, which thinks nothing of GMing its crops and which wants to build a wall to keep Mexicans out. Ah, how we could go on with this....