The EU and me... talent scout and agent gives his personal vision of life after Brexit

might add. Brexit seems to have morphed and changed course from a democratic referendum to now a rather large political game of ‘Westminster Monopoly.’

With, I’m afraid to say, some of our elected commoners favourably voting to keep their houses and hotels on the board – and therefore refusing to take a turn.

All this while the European press continues to feed on what is released within our UK news networks; to overdramatise the most simple of statements, delighting the news feeds again and again, for absolutely no other reason than drama. Drama sells. Whether you voted to leave or voted to remain, surely what’s exciting now is the opportunity and possibility of UK growth without being shackled to the EU.

Ninety percent of global growth over the next 10 to 15 years will be outside the EU ring-fence. A rather large slice of that will be ours. We are talking trillions for our economy. The propaganda of catastrophe is nothing short of theatre; an unmitigated tragedy with no standing ovation.

Nowhere on any other continent on our planet have we this kind of EU club. The cost of it alone relates to the cash take at a Las Vegas casino during a busy summer period. And you have to ask: why has no other continent followed Europe’s model and created an EU club of their own? To be governed by laws and rules that you cannot make, amend or control, with no power or authority to control your own national borders.

I find it odd that some people don’t see these points as an essential, valuable necessity. What is wrong with wanting to write our own laws? It is surely a fundamental need. For the most part it is to protect your tax-paying citizens and the economy they pay into. This, of course, covers a multitude from health to education. If that makes me sound like a flagwaving patriot, then so be it. I have asked these questions of friends and colleagues in Germany, Austria, France, Holland, Belgium and Denmark – all intelligent people, worldly. Alas, none could give me a persuasive reason why any elements of existing EU policies were actually favourable.

Having many conversations regarding individual laws and democratic demands of some EU member countries, I was surprised to hear that even though (for instance) the geographical topography and location of Germany’s borders presents different border challenges to that of France, the collective laws are the same.

You would think that these dominant, bespoke challenges would be motivation alone for updated, concise rulings to benefit for those said reasons. I was advised ‘absolutely not!.’

The EU means that regardless of where a country appears on the EU map, the laws are the same, regardless of the individuality and needs of those countries, effectively meaning that one size fits all.

The EU countries are all the same and will abide by the same rules and legislation. This I find socially backward and, to be brutal, communist.

Each country within the EU is not the same and surely deserves full respect of not only its cultural

Why has no other continent followed Europe’s model and created an EU club of their own?