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Let’s leave the EU and join Germany

It’s the only part of the whole deal that’s really worth our while

16 April 2016

9:00 AM

16 April 2016

9:00 AM

An argument you sometimes hear from those sitting on the Brence (the Brexit fence) is that it’s a pity the EU couldn’t have stayed the same as it was when we first joined it in 1973. Back then, say the Brence-sitters, it was a trading bloc with only nine members, which made sense.

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