Mr. Malloch Brown is a pro European with a left wing background and is wedded to a socialist Europe. Those with an education can prove that socialism has been nothing but a disaster unless you have an inexhaustible oil well from which to subsidise your vast (unsustainable) costs and the costs of thousands of immigrants wanting a bit of it.



The truth about the EU (in the last 40 years) is that it has diminished democracy; wrecked economic growth; undermined fiscal stability and threatened European security through the mad Shengen agreement. Added to that as a proportion of world trade it has fallen annually against the rest of the world, youth unemployment except for places like the UK have flat lined, and red tape has hampered industrial growth, whilst imports from non red tape bound nations like China has sky rocketed. Far from becoming a round table of 28 equally respect nations, we now have the Germany and France show - where decision making is basically handled by two nations to the exclusion of everyone else!!!



The EU stripped us (UK) of an even playing field, organised a massive subsidy fence so failing economies like France could have their failures hidden by UK cash and force us to continue to prop up the five chickens and two cow agricultural sector of France, whilst the UK have managed to reduce their reliance on subsidies, just as well as they dried up from Europe years ago. Bringing in majority voting where the takers out number the givers was a massive error of policy and a terrifying prospect for any nation that still has some cash in its bank account!!!!!!



The EU has got nothing to offer British workers. As a leftie and (presumably) a Labour supporter surely Mr Malloch Brown supporting the living wage of the working people of the UK should be a priority of yours???? That won't happen with free flow of low skilled labour making a beeline to the UK ......and no ability to stop it. The UK has suffered badly from over population and a massive influx of freeloading economic migrants, millions in fact (four million) trying to escape Europe and the poverty of the failed socialist Eastern European experiment. Now even my children can't afford a home or an education thanks to Labour policies which wrecked our society.





Not content with supporting the socialist disaster in the EU the author wants to see further damage to the UK. Frankly, the UK has had enough. Enough lies; enough false promises; enough of having our democracy undermined and side lined and enough of being lectured to by failed socialist politicos, who have nearly bankrupted the UK on a number of occasions with their fanciful ideas and failed economics. How much failure do you need to endure to accept socialism isn't going to work - not ever - even China and Russia (FGS) have given up with it - why do the tired old lefties from the UK keep coming out with the same old rhetoric???





Accept British democracy has triumphed, accept that the vote was legal and (contrary to your deluded complaints) the British did know what they were voting for, they were voting for an end to EU failure and an end to having fools and drunks like Barnier and Junker trying to run the economies of 28 countries when they can't even manage their own expense account.





Leave means leave and the UK will be better for it, who knows, maybe the EU will also wake up and go back to the EEC which they should never have left.