Yelland makes me want to yell 'But...'

As I comment on PoliticsJOE’s Youtube above (btw: ‘coronated’ ‽‽‽)

Your 'About' says 'Providing strong and stable coverage that’s equally biased against everyone' but you've given David Yelland the easiest of possible rides here, not even attempting to question his views on Brexit. (You could have asked about the five-star disaster that was Brentry.)

Mr Yelland speaks disparagingly of journalists who know nothing of business or economics yet doesn't address the fact that the EU from its roots to today is not an economic construct but a political one and that at least some of our current difficulties are down to EU spite - the abandoned-lover syndrome. If mutually beneficial economic relations were really what mattered a way forward would have been found before now.

As to Liz Truss, I've said elsewhere: she has previously tried to channel Margaret Thatcher in her photo ops, but Mrs Thatcher was highly intelligent, extremely hard-working and lucky. I’m pinning my hopes on Truss being very lucky; doesn’t look like it, so far.

David Yelland, former editor of The Sun newspaper, says he is (or used to be) a Labour supporter and makes a passing reference to democracy in the above interview, welcoming a diminished influence of the Press.

Here are a few other sometime Labour supporters: Tony Benn, Dennis Skinner, George Galloway. They too opposed membership of the EEC/EC/EU all along, on the grounds of Parliamentary democracy and freedom.

Brexit isn’t complete yet: the bill to get the EU out of our internal trade with Northern Ireland is now with the Lords; we’re still funding the EU generously as part of the withdrawal agreement; we still have lots of the EU’s Lilliputian threads to cut.

I agree with Yelland that we’re not going to see wonders of economic growth straight away, though as a Labour supporter he might ask himself why our working class has not shared in the boomtimes of previous decades - our material prosperity is largely an illusion created by cheap imports financed by trade imbalance and mounting public and private debt.

I also agree with him about the disappointing quality of our Brexiteer leaders, though that is partly down to lack of conviction: Truss voted against Brexit and Johnson’s lifelong principle is to be ‘world king.’ The trouble is that the more able (or perhaps more seasoned) players have been suborned by the glittering prizes available in the EU political and bureaucratic establishment. It’s all about them, isn’t it?

Yelland refers to ‘the single market’ but there are EEA countries that have an associate membership: Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. That said, would rejoining be beneficial for us? It depends on the terms, surely; and while the EU attitude continues petulant and punitive we are unlikely to get a good deal.

In any case, the EU is slowly falling apart: the more tightly it grips its members, the more they struggle to get free - think Greece, Italy, Hungary. As to the electorate, a touchstone for the EU’s attitude is the recent statement by Germany’s Foreign Affairs Minister Annalena Baerbock: ‘I stand with Ukraine, no matter what my German voters think.’ Democracy much, Mr Yelland?

Recent events have overtaken this debate: the destruction of Nordstreams 1 and 2 may one day be seen as a Temple of Dagon moment, bringing down the whole edifice. Germany, the keystone of the EU, will be terribly weakened by this outrage. Now would not, perhaps, be a good time to re-enter the building.

If I am wrong, perhaps all our future governments should be composed of tabloid editors.