Ah, memories. It's been six and a half years since leave triumphed the course in the EU referendum by that margin of 52 to 48, in case you forgot, so rarely discussed, after all.

It's almost three years since UK did officially leave, which actually coincides, by the way, with the beginning of the pandemic, not saying they're related, but I just, just getting nostalgic about these memories.

It was, if you remember, described by Boris Johnson as an oven-ready deal, and it's almost exactly two years, in fact, two years is Saturday, since Boris Johnson trumpeted in his post-Brexit trade deal, which he said was the biggest trade deal, yet worth £660 billion, which he declared will, if anything, allow our companies and our exporters to do even more business with our European friends.

Now, as a Guardian today, no, he falsely claimed there would be no non-tariff barriers to trade, but you know what, I know, I know, it's such a rare slip from that paragon of honesty and integrity, Boris Johnson, because he's the first time offended, we'll just let it slide.

Anyway, how's it all going? Sharing a little, having a little look, see, see what's going on?

Important job in its own terms, after all, which is why a new report by the British Chambers of Commerce is important, so they survey, surveyed more than 1,000 business leaders.

Now, 77% of the deal wasn't helping them increase sales expand. 56% said they'd experience problems complying in the new rules for exporting goods, 45% reported issues trading and services.

It's problems like dealing with the EU rules of the AT, problems of the custom rules, limits on business travel.

Now, because of these problems, not being resolved, according to the BCC, EU traders are just going to go elsewhere, which will then just keep compounding the economic problems that this country faces.

Now, part of the issue, there was a standoff over the Northern Ireland Protocol, bit of an oversight, not focusing on that issue during the referendum campaign, if we're going to be honest with you, given the good Friday agreement, which stops a conflict,

which killed about 3,500 people, was based on there being an open border between North and South, and obviously, if you have the North and the South, one in the EU and one outside the EU with their full different rules, then you're going to have a problem, which is why you end up with the protocol.

Anyway, there's a big standoff there, and that means, until that's what now, the relationship won't be stabilized.

They did threaten a trading ward, and this trust, I mean, she was halfway just claiming France, it wouldn't point to be fair.

Yeah, but that's calm down a bit, and there's negotiations going on.

Now, this all comes as a report from the Centre for European Reform, to GES Brexit, shade 5.5% of the economy, it costs 40 billion pounds in tax revenues, which is a fair whack, if we're going to be honest with you, quite a lot of nurses could be paid with that, I would say.

Let's talk about this. Now, some might actually notice, well, you have noticed, because I read your comments, and some of you complain about this, that I'm not always vain, thank you there, and to use that to think about talking about Brexit on this channel, there's a few reasons for that.

One, I did not like the culture war that the referendum unleashed.

My understanding of politics is probably based on class, which is who has wealth and power, and who doesn't believe the collision course there, the majority versus that tiny minority.

The referendum campaign, well, particularly it's aftermath of all this, redefined people as levers and remainers, and I didn't like that at all, because it became these cultural identities, which is though, I don't know, a supermarket worker in Hackney, a single mum, who voted remain,

was somehow aligned with the head of Goldman Sachs or David Cameron, who also voted remain, or a former minor in Darbyshire, had something in common with Jacob Rees Mogg, just because they both voted leave, didn't believe that.

So, I didn't like the way it opened up these all ridiculous and terrible divisions in British society.

Secondly, I'll just be honest, I need to be very sensitive here, because this will upset some people, there's a category of people I would describe as ultra-remainers.

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