Maybe post Brexit we can go back to the lovely pre-EU days

[Old Greg]

I want that back too, kids today can't do 12's and 20's...

Structure their pocket money accordingly and they'll soon get it.

[vetran]

Suggests EU membership had something to with it:

How did the UK economy do since joining the EU? | News | Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School

looking at the growth in GDP per capita I'm so glad USA joined the EU with us.

[sasguru]

looking at the growth in GDP per capita I'm so glad USA joined the EU with us.

Did you see my last link?
UK was declining relative to Europe between the 50s and 1973.
There was a reason why we joined in 1973, you know.
It wasn't because we were doing well economically, otherwise we wouldn't have bothered, would we

[DodgyAgent]

Whereas people in the EU can now live in the glorious Utopian world of Shengen

[https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...act=mrc&uact=8

[OwlHoot]

Slum photographs spark charity appeal - BBC News

With unrestricted freedom of movement the EU seems so obstinately obsessed with, we'd soon have had more slums if we'd remained!

HTH BIVMDI

[SueEllen]

Whereas people in the EU can now live in the glorious Utopian world of Shengen

[https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...act=mrc&uact=8

Luckily we are an island then.

More difficult to swim or more likely use a lilo to float across the sea than to walk across a large land border.

[vetran]

Luckily we are an island then.

More difficult to swim or more likely use a lilo to float across the sea than to walk across a large land border.

they could always just fell a tree and jump on the back of a lorry.

[DodgyAgent]

Luckily we are not in Shengen and are about to leave the EU.

FTFY

[LondonManc]

Luckily we are an island then.

More difficult to swim or more likely use a lilo to float across the sea than to walk across a large land border.

They'll still have a bloody good go, given our handouts system, erm benefits system.

[vetran]

only way to fix it is to send anyone who claims asylum in the UK who can't prove a direct route is to ship them back to the Refugee camp in Syria. Stop the draw.

I suspect an awful lot of them would suddenly realise they aren't actually Syrian any more.