Once again, Iains, I'll point out that you recently made fourteen posts in succession in this brexit-related thread that had nothing whatsoever to do with brexit. Please don't make me do an overall count. Instead, get help.

Er, the UK was the world's sixth largest economy in terms of GDP in 1970, pre-EU. In 2015 it was the fifth largest, even though China was nowhere in 1970 but way ahead of us in 2015. Why, we were even knocking spots off France in 2015. Cheers.