I join with Dave and RichA in expressing discomfort with Oracles repeated allegories of previous politico-military machinations of Germany. It is starting to feel like a drip feed of far right poison. This, for me, is undermining the very cogent, and as far as I can see, well informed warning points he makes about the rise of the imperialistic side of the European experiment. It is that sense of nagging disquiet that he has added flesh to. But I am increasingly of the view that I should try to put aside his arguments because I think they are tainted. I do not get this sense from any other of the protagonists for the leave view.

What I would really wish for now, after all this time, is a referendum to repeal our accession to the Treaty of Maastrict. What we had before then...a Common Market... seemed a much better fit for our geopolitical relationship with Continental Europe.