The richest country in Europe is Switzerland....

Righto, Doc.

Your signature is interesting. Now that the 350 million a week lie on the red bus has worked its magic to deliver Brexit, are you now in favour of actually decreasing funding for the NHS? That's what your signature  implies. Your signature is the perfect metaphor for Brexit.

I'm sure the Swiss can come up with their own version of Project Fear if they want to, the Credit Suisse issue might have got some thinking on that too as business elites who provided kick backs to politics always wants bigger markets.

You're just repeating the same old nonsense, gnome. The SM is not just a free trade area - it's the core of the EU and involves the free movement of goods, capital, services and people. It makes it basically like one country. I've worked for years in various countries in Europe. But Switzerland NEVER signed up to the SM. It chose to make bespoke deals to avoid the problems of becoming part of an amorphous "Europe". I could go and live anywhere in the EU - but I couldn't go and live in Switzerland, much as I might have liked to. They don't have free movement.

They also don't have free trade except for the goods that they've made agreements on. You need to try to understand - which I know is difficult for ignorant remainers - that you don't have to sign up to overarching agreements (involving free movement etc) in order to trade with most nations. Most nations trade via bilateral deals (WTO or bespoke). Switzerland trades via bespoke agreements. You can't be partly in the SM. It's like the EU - you're in or you're out.

But you've digressed from the basic point I was making - that membership of the EU doesn't make you wealthy, except if you're Germany. - And even they're not doing very well anymore. FoM has come back to bite them big time. A protectionist trading bloc is an old model now that all the growth is coming from countries outside Europe. It's the small nimble countries that do well in this environment.

Do you have evidence of kick backs to Swiss politicians? I notice that you lot are trying to have your cake and eat it ... again. If Switzerland is the acme of democracy because the people make all the decisions through referendums, then there will be a hell of a lot people to 'provide these kick backs' to. The entire voting population, in fact.

So, you don't think there will be an Eastern economic tiger? We all know Eastern Europeans work very hard. The EU is providing money to improve their infrastructure. Hard work and EU money was the formula for Ireland's success. Why won't that formula be successful in the East? Eastern Europeans work as hard as the Germans, so why shouldn't they achieve economies of the same strength? A Europe with another three or four economies of Germany's size would be an enormous economic powerhouse.

The EU planted a money tree on the UK's doorstep when they invested in Ireland. France, Germany, etc., invested in Ireland, in the full knowledge that the UK would be the main beneficiary from the increased investment. And the UK was the main beneficiary, as the newly rich Irish could now afford to buy UK manufactured goods on a dramatically increased scale. Now, the EU hopes to replicate that success in the East. They are investing in Eastern Europe in the expectation that their economies will grow dramatically. When that happens, there will be increased wealth for everyone in the EU. But the UK is contributing nothing to building up these countries' economies - it's not investing in infrastructure in Warsaw, etc. So, will the EU allow the UK to benefit in the way it benefitted from Ireland's economic renaissance? I doubt it. It wouldn't be very fair, would it?

What are you dribbling on about now?...

I'm referring to your signature. You seem to wish to reduce the NHS. It would be highly undemocratic for people to vote for Brexit on the basis that extra money would be spent on the NHS, and then to actually reduce spending on the NHS once the vote was returned.