I have provided the ONS trade stats showing that inflation adjusted, we're a lot better off now than we were in 2015. Our vote for independence has had a massive effect on the economy, mostly beneficial.
In 2015 we exported £223.3 billion to the EU.
Last year we exported £340 billion to the EU.
Inflation adjusted we'd have sold £297 billion to the EU if we'd stayed members.
It wasn't working.
It was resulting in industrial decline and poverty migration. Membership had a very detrimental effect on the majority of the country.
Why do you think that Labour's heartlands voted leave? Once the industrial powerhouse of Britain, devastated by EU membership. Manufacturer after manufacturer ditched us for cheaper parts of the EU.
Our currency was overvalued. And that was a serious impediment not only on exports, but on domestic sales as imports were cheaper than domestic products.
The hard left blame Thatcher for everything, but it is the EEC and the EU which exposed our manufacturers to economic Darwinism. These problems existed when James Callaghan was PM, when Harold Wilson was PM, and when Edward Heath was PM.
A trade surplus in 1972 had become a monster deficit by 1974. The Europhiles said it would get better just give it a chance.
Well we did, but it got worse and then they created the EU, which we had not voted to join. And for 23 years we were denied a say, so wait your turn.
We've been out for three years.
You've another seventeen to go.
Then a generation will have passed.