Because the others aren't as unbearably sanctimonious about it (viz. your previous skeet)

The UK had a huge self-interest in supporting the bailout of the Irish banks by the Irish taxpayers (which is what the loans at commercial rates went to support). Many UK financial institutions were massively exposed to bankruptcy of the Irish banks whose fecklessness they had enabled. No charity...

Except it's not really, is it? Total journey time will be at least double that of a car trip given the respective station locations (they make Old Oak Common look central) and lack of local onward public transport. So you can't avoid Dubai traffic, which would be the biggest draw.

This sounds very like exceptionalism. The UK economy is actually not substantially different nor is it ever likely to be, than the EU median. So the notional value of BoE independence is worth mitigating the far higher risk of a run on independent sterling and UK gov bonds?

UK as a contributing voice to ECB would potentially be more useful to UK economy than an "independent" BoE, much as it used to be on developing regulations and standards across all sectors

Interest rates are an increasingly weak influencer on modern interlinked global economies viz. 2022. But please consider the relative BoE and ECB interest rate movements since, say, 2010 and tell me how following ECB policy would have made any meaningful difference to UK economic performance?

I've not seen cogent economic case against joining €, now proven resilient. Control is a fiction in 2020s. Eliminating uncertainty in trade, especially commodities will be a huge productivity gain, boosting € credentials as reserve currency, alternative to flaky $/US, declining significance of oil

The hyperbole is projecting "never happen" from present reality. I remain (happily) shocked at the dramatic shift in opinion and climate on LGBTQ rights (albeit with recent sad regression on T) that happened in barely a decade from the mid 90s. When the shift comes, it is often sudden.

You're using hyperbolic language that you have fairly criticised others for. "Zero interest in" = a largely un/misinformed group (UK voters' shocking lack of basic understanding of the EU) with a portion - who knows how many - of potential persuadables (especially younger less imperial nostalgists)

Yes, how long will English exceptionalism continue to trump obvious economic and societal self-interest? And the EU won't be opening their doors, whatever the excitable noises from various individuals, until rejoin has a broad political consensus, though this could reappear quickly I guess

30 odd % for rejoin regardless is not nothing: a base from which to make the argument. There are strong factual cases to be made for benefits of euro (especially) and schengen which nobody is doing. The challenge is that the opposition to both is based largely around emotional aspects of "control"

Even at the time, there was clearly some pretty nasty stuff in Fawlty Towers. The bitter angry misogyny, of course, with Sybil, the harridan. And the portrayals of ethnic characters: Manuel, above all, but others, notably the Irish builder, all driven by noxious 1970s racist stereotypes.

And this is actually one of the clearer pieces of communication...the whole 0207/0208 thing still lives

Having lived through it, I have to say the London prefix change featured what was, by far, the worst major public communication campaign in my (six decade plus) lifetime. It was confusing and provided wrong information. That legacy is still evident, though fortunately of diminishing importance.