Damn! Spotted my ploy :-)

But I believe that leaving the EU will be better for the future of the UK, and am willing to accept the short term costs. I do not believe those who say we're leaving the EU and that it will be the next generations that lose.

This is just what I am trying to get at, Nigel. On what do you base these beliefs? There is nothing backing up your belief that it will be better and tons of stuff saying it will be worse. I desperately want to believe that it will be for the best but no-one has provided the results of any studies indicating that it will be better while there are a plethora of studies that indicate the opposite.

Sorry, stalwart chap that you may be, I do not want to risk the future of my children and grandchildren on baseless optimism.

DtG