You mean a paranoid dead museum state full of twisted paranoid people who at least know their place and have nothing to do with outsiders?

Yeah, I know you’re kidding (kinda) but go on, admit it, secretly that’s exactly what you’d like & feel more comfortable with.

Shame a (vast) majority of the rest of us will never go for it though, eh?

“I’ve seen surveys in the Mail which show this”

I’ve seen surveys in the Mail that show eating a watermelon during a full moon will guarantee you won’t get cancer. And I believe that about as much as any other survey they claim shows something that suits them (i.e. not much). I bet just as many women who have to stay home because of their circumstances would actually like to go out to work, but if you don’t ask that question too of the right people it’s easy to claim a result that doesn’t really exist because you’ve not looked at the whole picture.

Still, fair play to admitting your idea won’t work in the real world – which is pretty much what you’ve done given there’s no way the majority of voters would ever accept a siege situation, no would immigrants hang about to fill jobs nicely for you until such time as you can boot ‘em out. There’s been a global economy (note: not the same things as globalisation) for centuries, and Britain needs it a lot more than it needs us.

To conclude though, let’s have a look at some examples. The USA, a country that is built on immigration and free, global trade, went from not existing to the most powerful nation on Earth in a matter of a few hundred years. North Korea, probably the most isolationist, inward-looking nation on Earth, is a backwards, poverty-stricken hell-hole run by a corrupt dictator and his cronies.

You want people to willingly go for option 2. That’s not gonna ever happen, is it love? And if it did, you’d probably hate it just as much as everyone else. Because in the grand scheme of things, having a few Polish plumbers knocking about is a darn sight better than being forced to be a subsistence farmer living on turnips and waiting to die young because no one can afford decent healthcare.