Who are we?
Yesterday's Budget from Philip Hammond is dismaying - £3bn allocated to pay for Brexit. Even as spending on the NHS, schools and other public services is kept tight, he can nevertheless find £3bn to pay for this absurd project. And it's not just £3bn - that's on top of the rumoured £40bn which may, or may not, be the final cost of the divorce settlement. So that's £43bn then. Or maybe more – who knows? And still, we don't know why. Running through the tired pseudo-arguments, one in particular jars today - the idea of “getting our sovereignty back”. Never mind that we never lost it (as confirmed by The Government's own white paper earlier in the year). Some Brexit-champions still like to reiterate how we'll be able to make our own laws again. (The obvious has been pointed out repeatedly – that we will continue to be bound by EU regulation just so long as we want to sell anything to EU members.) But it's another aspect of this that is so striki