Since January 1993 There Have Been 27

Since January 1993 There Have Been 27 Other Countries Not In The Eu That Have Done Better Than The Uk At Exporting Goods Into The Single Market.

You Know, Sometimes I Don't Understand What's Wrong With Us. This Is Just About The Most Creative And Imaginative Country On Earth—and Yet Sometimes We Just Don't Seem To Have The Gumption To Exploit Our Intellectual Property. We Split The Atom, And Now We Have To Get French Or Korean Scientists To Help Us Build Nuclear Power Stations. We Perfected The Finest Cars On Earth—and Now Rolls-royce Is In The Hands Of The Germans. Whatever We Invent, From The Jet Engine To The Internet, We Find That Someone Else Carts It Off And Makes A Killing From It Elsewhere.

If We Judged Everybody By The Stupid, Unguarded Things They Blurt Out To Their Nearest And Dearest, Then We Wouldn't Ever Get Anywhere.

Remind Me: Who Was The Greater Mass Murderer, Stalin Or Hitler? Well, Stalin Is Thought To Have Been Responsible For About 50 Million Deaths, And Hitler For A Mere 25 Million. What Hitler Did In His Concentration Camps Was Equalled If Not Exceeded In Foulness By The Soviet Gulags, Forced Starvation And Pogroms. What Makes The Achievements Of Communist Russia So Special And Different, That You Can Simper Around In A Cccp T-shirt, While Anyone Demented Enough To Wear Anything Commemorating The Third Reich Would Be Speedily Banged Away Under The 1986 Public Order Act?

This Is Not A Time To Quail, It Is Not A Crisis, Nor Should We See It As An Excuse For Wobbling Or Self-doubt. But It Is A Moment For Hope...