Beyond me, I'm afraid, Al. You reckon the EU is at the root of all our problems. I disagree but let's leave that for now. You also say that "To repair the damage done by the EU (even to just our marine environment) will take decades - and much more morally upright politicians than are presently in evidence." We know the latter is never going to happen and, to be honest, our manufacturing base is never going to be what it was, so just why are you so insistent that we should leave the EU? Surely working within and improving the framework we already have is a better route to recovery that demolishing everything we have done and starting again. You are voting for and trying to sell something that will never benefit you and it is highly unlikely that in will benefit your children or your children's children. You are grasping for the two birds in the bush rather than the one in your hand. And, to be honest, the birds you saw in the 1970s have long since flown away.