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Interesting to hear Peter Shore's own version of 'Project Fear' when he talks about the UK having to accept laws made in other countries. 45 years later, the UK still had sovereignty in the following areas: The constitution (still got the HoL and royal family) Economic/monetary policy (still...

I remember in the 1975 referendum my father was unsure whether to vote In or Out. At the time both Tony Benn from the left and Enoch Powell from the right were campaigning for Out. My father considered that any position that united those two had to be extremely suspect, so voted In.

I regularly read outside my comfort zone. I often dip into the Telegraph comments sections. They are so far to the right that they make the Telegraph editorial stance look positively Woke. I treat it as a sort of zoo; Covid deniers over here, Trump continuity supporters to the right, Bill Gates...

EU will survive longer than UK. The COVID mess will probably prevent further integration as Member States will probably want to maintain control over health policy but they'll want to maintain the benefits of frictionless trade. On the UK side, Brexit has probably advanced Irish unification by...

I seem to recall that one of the double deckers was operating as a demo in Southampton in around 1975. With the combination of its angular design and colour (which i seem to recall as a sort of yellow ochre but could be wring) I think it would win my vote as the ugliest bus ever to operate in...

I think the only advantage is the flexibility of being able to move vehicles between OpCos (possibly temporarily) without needing to repaint them or without them looking out of place, but that's an issue of practicality rather than having a national brand identity.

My Grandmother hated it. Said 'why didn't they wait until all the old people died before doing this?'

The Irish also voted against the Lisbon treaty a few years later and again accepted it the 2nd time. I don't think they got a much better deal the second time round but they probably thought it was worth trying.. I was rather hoping that with the referendum being so close in 2016 Cameron might...

A bit like the dog that finally catches the car.

We arranged our own scheme while we were still operating under EU rules. Indeed, Germany , Hungary and possibly others are going their own way and don't need to leave the EU to do it. The benefit of the eu scheme is mostly for smaller countries. Eu is not one size fits all. We have been able to...

It will last. In EU meetings where I've been involved there has not always been translation and English has always been used. The Eastern European MS, and the Nordic countries, generally don't like French. It tends to be a slightly Americanised English (perhaps reflecting TV viewing habits)...

The one in Petersfield in Station Road was a tyre depot when I lived there a few years ago (in Petersfield, not the tyre depot)

Ireland has the option of doing what Hungary are doing, ordering large quantities of the Russian 'Sputnik' vaccine. Not sure if the Irish would be particularly comfortable with that though. I agree that the UK made the right decision to go its own way on vaccine (which we did while we were...

This 'sovereignty' thing has always baffled me. Do I go out of the house singing "hey, what a wonderful day, I've got my sovereignty back now"? No, because I can't even go out of the house now without good reason.

We have left the single market. We still have access to it, but we are not part of it.

Possibly lied, or possibly just didn't understand how the Customs Union or Single Market worked

If you look at the Telegraph reader comments pages (so far to the Right they make the Telegraph itself look positively Woke) they all hate Johnson now for limiting their freedom (Enjoying your freedom now, Brexiteers?) and would be likely to vote for whatever Farage is calling himself now at any...

Intetesting that you have to go to a railway enthusiasts' site to get a relatively sensible discussion about Brexit. Maybe the Russian trolls haven't found us yet.

Picture is over a year old, and at least one bus looked almost complete. Why were they unable to deliver by February?

Yes https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/18519541.road-closed-coach-bursts-flames/ Claimed to be a coach but actually a Jurassic coaster